[…] has come from David Shayler who is at the centre of this book. It is easy to forget what an important source Shayler has been. Publicly, the Labour government totally failed to take Shayler’s information on board and swore allegiance to the sanctity and virtue of our secret servants. (But privately, who knows?) Even […]
[…] did a little checking. The earliest version of this theme I have found appeared in the 1963 Jack and Bessie Braddock book The Braddocks. (The Braddocks were Labour MPs who began on the left and ended on the Catholic right.) There, between pages 223-5, Bessie quotes at some length from a document headed ‘Cominform […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Hubbard Jnr. mentions two famous people who were involved with Hubbard Snr. One was Errol Flynn and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father […]
[…] of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major knew better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in opposition saying he wanted to see ‘a publicly accountable, […]
[…] to assault us. And when they looked for published information on the antecedents of this group of people and organisations, they found almost nothing there – just Labour Research (God bless ’em) and a few books and pamphlets in libraries What has happened is clearly enough. Hughes began researching the Economic League and, en […]
[…] of which could all too easily cause a major diplomatic incident. In later years, it has always amazed me that these various operations were authorised by a Labour government in London and I attributed this to the power of the Foreign Secretary at that time, Ernest Bevin. Part of my briefing covered the fact […]
[…] the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult is the New Labour group currently fronting the Labour Party. Tony Blair gives every indication to me of being about to drift away on a pillow of guff from his […]
[…] with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes MP biographies; Parties; pressure groups; campaigns; agencies; Councils page; local election results; archive; UK politics newsgroups; links. LabourNet http://www.labournet.org/ International Labour Solidarity Website ‘promotes computer communications as a medium for building international labour solidarity’. Started Nov 1995 to support the sacked Liverpool dockers fight for reinstatement. International […]
[…] and Searchlight sharing journalists and photographers. (2) Daphne Liddle is a member of the NCP; works for both the New Worker and Searchlight; defended Searchlight in the Labour Briefing debate on Searchlight in late 1992; edited Forewarned Against Fascism in the late 1970s; and was apparently the lover of Searchlight’s ‘mole’ in Column 88, […]
