[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, […]
[…] 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 s winter approachs 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 […]
[…] Guardian John Harris wrote this: A section of the enduring cult focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the “Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of […]
[…] Guardian John Harris wrote this: A section of the enduring cult focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the “Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of […]
[…] things are now so bad even Purves was moved to write that the privatisation of public services has been a disaster5 – something the current leaders of Labour Party dare not say – even if they think it; and there is no evidence that they do. There isn’t anything too complex here. Everything done […]
[PDF file]: […] the African National Congress. In addition are scores of typed letters, reports and minutes of committee and cabinet meetings, for a example a detailed description of a Labour shadow cabinet meeting in 1963 concerning the issue of nuclear disarmament and 1 another on the Monckton Commission.’ (p. 28 emphasis added) Cabinet meetings? I spoke […]
[…] in the British colonies and former colonies. When it came to its last big operation in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, it went as far as smearing Labour MPs who were perceived as sympathetic to Irish nationalism. *new* Briefly David Aaronovitch has a Substack called ‘Notes from the Underground’. He is In this column […]
[…] in the British colonies and former colonies. When it came to its last big operation in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, it went as far as smearing Labour MPs who were perceived as sympathetic to Irish nationalism. *new* Briefly David Aaronovitch has a Substack called ‘Notes from the Underground’. He is In this column […]
[PDF file]: […] or Majoritarian Pluralism.’1 4 I noticed a report on this on 30 March, the first official day of the general election campaign here, which was begun by Labour leader Ed Miliband making nice in the City of London, promising not to increase their taxes and, centrally, to keep UK corporation tax the lowest in […]
