[…] is professionally produced, with full-colour illustrations, lots of photographs, and all the industry-standard lay-out techniques. Issue 3 is 40 pages, with essays on aspects of Maastricht, New Labour and Blairism’s impact (or lack of it) on the EU, the MIA proposals, Brian Burkitt of Bradford University on the economics of EMU; as well as […]
[…] referendum, contains almost nothing that we didn’t know already. The familiar story is re-told: the ‘anti’ campaign had little money and, because they were composed of the Labour left and Tory right, had difficulty working together; they didn’t produce a professional-looking campaign and were portrayed by the media as a group of oddballs. Meanwhile […]
[…] on ‘full spectrum dominance’. As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses of […]
[…] Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed for ten […]
[…] creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that nothing has changed – because nothing could change. He treats the claims that Labour is running […]
[…] recruited by the DS. (ibid pp.225-6) ‘Prepared Statement of Jack R. Perry, Retired Foreign Service Officer and Former US Ambassador to Bulgaria’ in US Congress, Committee on Labour and Human Resources (see note 207) p.64. Unlike Adams, Perry has great experience of Bulgarian affairs and is fluent both in Russian and Bulgarian. Ibid. Contra […]
[…] still appears on toilets) – but as an adjective for any sort of ‘capitalism’ it is an oxymoron (just like the obverse notion of an ‘aristocracy of labour’, which at least was deliberately ironic). The cult of the ‘gentleman’ in the 19th century was part of a cultural strategy for assimilating manufacturers (presumably with […]
[…] for the Bush way of doing things. Harken Energy was formed in 1973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilise Australia’s Labour government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). A decade later, Harken was sold to a new investment group headed by New York attorney […]
[…] and one the much vaunted razor-sharp minds at the Treasury didn’t see. Why was Britain not in Vietnam? In a Sunday Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, […]
[…] junior minister in the Treasury during the Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott saw […]
