[PDF file]: Confessions of a Labour loyalist Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire London: Quercus, £20.00, h/b In his extremely useful memoir of the Blair government, Adam Boulton notes that the unlikely figure of Dennis Skinner had been ‘recruited into Blair’s big tent’. He goes on to comment on how Skinner […]
[…] claims against that case have been rebutted by me 4 – and, in much more detail, by David Denton.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he […]
[…] claims against that case have been rebutted by me 4 – and by David Denton, in much more detail.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he […]
[PDF file]: […] threats to our international competitiveness comes from ill-designed and misguided European legislation imposed not just on our financial services industry, but many other industries too.’ 14 Wither Labour? I wasn’t going to bother adding my 5p’s worth to the discussion about the Labour Party’s future but then I saw the following quote from Ken […]
[PDF file]: […] was weaker than that of either France or Germany, the two other major players in the ERM. Specifically, inflation was three times greater, interest rates higher, and labour productivity lower. The UK insisted on valuing the pound at a high level when it entered the ERM. Partly as a means of attracting money into […]
[PDF file]: […] European Union. This perceived illegitimacy was acknowledged by the Conservatives, Greens and UKIP who all offered voters on May 7 the opportunity of a referendum. But not Labour, which hardly mentioned the EU in the campaign, leaving it to Blair to bang the Brussels drum. The former Prime Minister’s other campaign bestowal was £1,000 […]
[PDF file]: […] and How to Do It Chris Bryant London: Bloomsbury, 2023, £14.99, h/b John Newsinger Chris Bryant is a public school–educated former Church of England clergyman, now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a history of Christian […]
[…] and How to Do It Chris Bryant London: Bloomsbury, 2023, £14.99, h/b John Newsinger Chris Bryant is a public school–educated former Church of England clergyman, now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a history of Christian […]
Contents Political life in Britain Talking to a Brick Wall: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics Deborah Mattinson London: Biteback, 2010, £17.99 People, Politics and Pressure Groups: Memoirs of a lobbyist Arthur Butler Hove: Picnic Publishing, £12.99, 2010 Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human […]
[PDF file]: […] The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK’.11 Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, made the same claim in her speech to the Labour Party conference: ‘we are the sixth richest economy in the world’.12 Graham also noted that in 1945, when the Labour Party began its creation of social […]
