[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive Liberal Party general election manifestos after 1929 and became the predominant (though not the only) politico-economic discourse in the Labour Party from 1935 until 1997. It went into eclipse during the era of ‘New Labour’ (barring a brief revival in 2008-10) but was rehabilitated during the […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive Liberal Party general election manifestos after 1929 and became the predominant (though not the only) politico-economic discourse in the Labour Party from 1935 until 1997. It went into eclipse during the era of ‘New Labour’ (barring a brief revival in 2008-10) but was rehabilitated during the […]
[…] 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? *new* Labour Together The group which funded Keir Starmer’s run at the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour Together, was discussed in Lobster 88.5 The essential Open Democracy […]
[PDF file]: […] one of the world’s leading experts on biological warfare? Did you know that this Downing Street spokesman was promptly promoted? Did you know that at a 2006 Labour Party fundraising evening a copy of the Hutton report, autographed by Cherie Blair and Alastair Campbell, raised £400 for the constituency of Labour Cabinet minister and […]
[…] Brown? How the dream job turned sour Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8.99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British […]
[…] testimonies, opinion polls showing public disgust. My own December 2019 report – “The Jew who laughed last at Corbyn” – followed an Orthodox candidate who beat the Labour leader in his own district and embodied the backlash. The aim was ruthless and explicit: never let voters forget the word antisemitism.6 The ‘London playbook’ indeed. […]
[PDF file]: […] (as in the coal industry) or left to market forces. This was a political as much as an economic project, intended to weaken the power of organised labour and strengthen the forces of capital, especially financial and commercial capital, through policies which facilitated the collapse of the material foundations of post-war British social democracy. […]
[PDF file]: […] 40 years and is thus one of the architects of the disastrous mess the UK is in. In his column of 17 April, ‘Truss’s excuse sounds like Labour in 1976’,1 he considered Liz Truss’s claims that her economic policies were undermined by unelected officials, notably in the Office for Budget Responsibility. He commented: ‘Anyone […]
