[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] (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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The crisis Robin Ramsay The political problem Sitting in the pub, a friend of mine said he couldn’t understand what was going on in the Labour Party at the moment. I said something to the effect that they had a problem: almost everything they believed about economic policy for the past 25 years was […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
