[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.6 Among the Asia foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister 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’,7 which concludes: By […]
[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]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[PDF file]: […] dominant social groups in these regions tended to be provincial industrialists and the organised working class. Politics was usually dominated by the Liberal and (after 1918) the Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the […]
[PDF file]: […] broke up as it lost state support in the era of detente in the 1970s. In the context of a counter-movement against detente, former intelligence officers and labour activists attempted to develop an epistemic community around a theory of intelligence that would provide a basis for renewed state support for political warfare. This theory […]
[PDF file]: […] Unsurprisingly, it has not been reviewed in the mainstream media.1 So be it. In these tumultuous times, who is interested in the story of how the current Labour leader was propelled into office? More people I suspect are now more interested in how soon he will be propelled out of office. Having said that, […]
[PDF file]: […] and Management Studies expanding (nearly one in four US students studies Business or Management subjects).1 It is worth remembering that the Review was set up by New Labour with the personnel appointed to produce exactly that outcome. There was no student representation on the panel (something the LibDems actually condemned at the time – […]
