[PDF file]: […] would be pulped; but it wasn’t. Some years later I received an anonymous phone call. A middle aged man with an RP accent told me that the Labour Party had contacted the publisher of PCP and offered to pay to suppress the book. How thrilling! Then I asked how much was offered: £5000. Which […]
[PDF file]: […] B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power in Britain by closing down […]
[PDF file]: […] the forefront of transforming an agency focused on espionage into a global organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: ‘A lifelong Labour supporter and former Young Socialist, Ritchie saw no contradiction between his intelligence work and his egalitarian ideals.’2 A pinko spook? We have come a long way […]
[PDF file]: […] the Earth: A World Survey of Soil Erosion, published in 1939. Released from internment, in 1942 he joined the Rural Reconstruction Association, founded in 1925 by the Labour Party activist Montague Fordham, remaining a member until his death. From 1942 onwards he was also active in the agricultural section of the Economic Reform Club, […]
[PDF file]: […] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[…] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[…] in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s diary is quite unlike the Labour Party equivalents I have read. In those there are policy disagreements but personal abuse is largely absent. I can’t decide if this says something about Duncan, […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.2 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
[PDF file]: […] from Balls As winter approaches some people suffer from seasonally affective disorder (SAD). I get CAD, conference affective disorder, a creeping gloom produced by reports from the Labour Party conference. It’s not just that they’re so obviously more concerned with careers than the national interest – that’s a given these days – they’re so […]
[PDF file]: […] in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s diary is quite unlike the Labour Party equivalents I have read. In those there are policy disagreements but personal abuse is largely absent. I can’t decide if this says something about Duncan, […]
