[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a great many people. Given the importance of the CPGB on the British left, in the trade unions and as a source of both policy for the Labour Party and problems for Labour governments, it would be difficult to overstate the political significance of this. One of the reasons the UK did not become […]
[PDF file]: […] Harold Macmillan, yet he made less impression than any of those figures even at the time.’ A fair point, although his elevation to the premiership certainly had Labour rattled, rightly as it turned out on election night two years later. ‘The Conservatives have found their Attlee,’ said Lord (Douglas) Jay at the time in […]
[PDF file]: […] that over half the population felt that the Israeli response to the events of 7 October 2023 had gone too far.8 All the same, both the current Labour administration and its Conservative predecessor have generally supported the Israeli Government, albeit tempering this from time to time with statements highly critical of its conduct.9 Following […]
