[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to tolerate […]
[…] 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]: […] from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s son Malcolm. Sarah is the oldest daughter of former Labour leader John Smith. The Robertson family were out in force with leading Labour lights in Scotland for Sarah’s own wedding in 2007 to US-born former soldier […]
[…] office’. *new* The anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer9 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or unwilling to present the episode honestly. And it’s not […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.24 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. Another significant article on the Did-the-US-use-biological-weaponsduring-Korean-War? question has appeared: Jeffrey S. Kaye’s ‘The Lights Were Blinking Red’,25 which […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.24 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. Another significant article on the Did-the-US-use-biological-weaponsduring-Korean-War? question has appeared: Jeffrey S. Kaye’s ‘The Lights Were Blinking Red’,25 which […]
[…] office’. *new* The anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer26 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or or There are currently no British politicians listed as […]
[PDF file]: […] any observers with a decent political memory of the modus operandi of his late father, Alderman Cunningham, also of Felling.1 On hearing the report in June, the Labour Party immediately withdrew the whip from Cunningham, who duly protested his innocence stating that he had suspicions about the interview he attended and had been ‘testing’ […]
[PDF file]: […] on the money supply – monetarism – and its centrality in government economic policy had become adopted by the Thatcher faction of the Conservative Party, apparently by Labour Prime Minister Callaghan2 4 and by sections of the higher media commentariat. In 1980 Friedman presented a series of hour long films with the umbrella title […]
