[…] he became a Fellow of All Souls in 1920’ – All Souls being one of the centres, according to Quigley, of the Milner Group. In summary then: Labour MP and TGWU leader, Ernest Bevin, becomes a Commonwealth enthusiast and is rewarded with a tour of the dominions, climaxing with a long boat trip and […]
[…] collection might have looked at is the recent paper by Giles Scott-Smith, ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, the US Embassy’s International Visitor Program and the Labour Party in the 1980s’. (1) Scott-Smith, whose book on the Congress for Cultural Freedom was reviewed in Lobster 43, lists the Labour MPs who took what […]
[…] a hard-line, law and order Home Secretary such as John Reid, arrested and expelled from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning […]
[…] between Legg and herself, Pat and I married. We were subsequently divorced in 1985. I had recently been involved in student politics as a member of the Labour Club, and was elected to the sabbatical post of Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield […]
[…] protest outside Westminster, even as he was charming the Chinese Defence chief inside. (19) Then there is ‘ex-foreign office mandarin Ben Chapman MP, ‘torpedoed into a safe Labour seat at the ’97 election’, (20) who is now parliamentary private secretary to Export Credit Guarantee Department Minister Richard Caborn whose department considers funding for construction […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Mosley’s biographer, he claimed there was no truth in them. As an MP, 1929-31, Lady Cynthia’s political position appears to have approximated to those of the present Labour left, say Wedgie Benn. Besides have a good line on environmental matters that would endear her to our contemporary Greens, she took an interest in welfare […]
[PDF file]: Reformatted and slightly updated late 2023. The Clandestine Caucus Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in the British Labour movement since 1945 Robin Ramsay Introduction Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘communist threat’ in Lobster 24; […]
The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more
[…] class finds itself in, not least when it comes to religion and the threat of a US-led invasion. Despite Islam being the ideological underpinning of the repressive labour (and other laws), most Iranians remain Muslims and would want any political changes to respect that. This accounts for the comparative lack of success of more […]
