[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] party. After his return to Civvy Street in 1960, injury ended his career as a firefighter but did not hinder his entry into Scottish trade union and Labour party activism. He came under the instructive influence of Ayrshire council leader Danny Sim – ‘a miner, a sea-green incorruptible and a man feared by many […]
[…] time, who knows how many were active? Even so, did the other members of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union itself really have another 180,00 agents? Labour Together The group which funded Keir Starmer’s run at the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour Together, was discussed in Lobster 88.16 The essential Open Democracy […]
[PDF file]: […] irreparably damaged. But for MI5 this ‘secret’ link to the Soviet Union was too useful a tool for use against the left in the UK, particularly the Labour * This appeared in Granville Williams (ed.) Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath (London: Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, 2009) 1 Falber […]
[PDF file]: […] it works. No, the nation rather comfortably replies, on the whole, we ain’t. It was a victory for consensus politics and the British way, rather than for Labour. But Labour, the natural party of government, did it all right, with a 21-seat majority and another five years. Earlier that year, Margaret Thatcher had told […]
[PDF file]: […] country went Communist.’ This could only have been an allusion to the possibility that the general election that was due in late 1964 would result in a Labour government that Major Smedley and his colleagues regarded as seriously – even dangerously – left-wing. Sir Geoffrey Crowther went from Cambridge where he had been President […]
[…] of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is lower than in the 1950s, and lower than in countries including France, Italy and the United States. The economy is growing.3 […]
[…] about them. This is not the first attempt by Sanderson to get his story out. He began while still in prison in 1991, working with the Stockton Labour MP Frank Cook and academic Peter Smith.3 They both died before the job was done. Then he worked with a TV producer, a Cook Report alumnus, […]
[PDF file]: […] about them. This is not the first attempt by Sanderson to get his story out. He began while still in prison in 1991, working with the Stockton Labour MP Frank Cook and academic Peter Smith.4 They both died before the job was done. Then he worked with a TV producer, a Cook Report alumnus, […]
[PDF file]: 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 Tom Easton Deborah Mattinson is just one of the many early enthusiasts for what became New Labour […]
