[…] Thatcher coming in gave them carte blanche to get up to all sorts of things. We heard whispers that some of these people were trying to destabilise Labour before the Tories got back in.’ We’ve been here before. Back in the late 1970s, the people gathered round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals […]
[PDF file]: […] A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a piece by Labour MP Jess Phillips on the Livingstone business. In it I suggested that Ken Livingstone might now choose to spend less time in the studios and more […]
[…] A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a piece by Labour MP Jess Phillips on the Livingstone business. In it I suggested that Ken Livingstone might now choose to spend less time in the studios and more […]
[PDF file]: […] had to go after the revelation of the £40,000 rent payment from the taxpayer, most still think he can a make a ministerial return following the New Labour precedents of Peter Mandelson, David Blunkett, Beverley Hughes and Peter Hain. Some journalists went further in their support for Laws. While his partner Matthew Parris was […]
[…] be appropriate – by MI5.2 In this period MI5 contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably […]
[PDF file]: […] be appropriate – by MI5.2 In this period MI5 contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably […]
[PDF file]: […] of image automatically associated with a history professor. Yet as one cherished postwar economic myth after another is gunned down, it is an irresistible one. The 1964-1970 Labour Government was fatally compromised by a foolish refusal to devalue sterling right at the start? Bang! Its Seventies successor buried social democracy after the 1976 sterling […]
[…] is in the lowest category, suffering between 1 and 5 such attacks. Blighty isn’t even worth disinformation! *new* Declassified UK sent out an email Dear Robin, 2 Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) has described itself as “a Westminster based lobby group working within the British Labour Party to promote the State of Israel”. LFI […]
[PDF file]: […] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]
[PDF file]: […] out of print’. Secondhand copies can be found on AbeBooks, Thriftbooks and eBay 25 26 or 27 9 money and high-level contacts. Had we access to internal Labour Party emails, I’m sure a similarly intricate picture could be produced – though hopefully there would be no use of fake social media accounts. Of the […]
[PDF file]: Broken Vows Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power Tom Bower London: Faber and Faber, 2016, £20, h/b Tony McWalter, a Labour MP and former philosophy lecturer, rose at Prime Minister’s Questions on 28 February 2002 and asked the following question: ‘Since my Right Honourable friend is sometimes subject to rather unflattering or even malevolent […]
