[PDF file]: […] The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK’.11 Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, made the same claim in her speech to the Labour Party conference: ‘we are the sixth richest economy in the world’.12 Graham also noted that in 1945, when the Labour Party began its creation of social […]
[…] rather than dictating to them. Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s. A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] individualism and accepted uncritically a definition of economics that studies growth but omits welfare. (p. 27) I was wondering how to write about this when then would-be Labour MP Andy Burnham made a speech in early May in which he referred to ‘40 years on the wrong path, a path that has damaged communities […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] . 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 […]
