[…] call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. This said that the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get […]
[…] call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. This said that the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or […]
[…] 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]: […] times, and certainly pre-1979, the monthly trade figures were a piece of ritualised political theatre that required urgent announcements, elaborate explanations, and, sometimes, finished political careers (usually Labour). This is no longer the case. Even The Times opined that Britain imports too much and its only hope if it wishes to reverse this is […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). IRD was set up in 1948, the brainchild of Christopher Mayhew (S.O.E. during WW2), a junior minister in the Labour Government. Its original aim had been to attack communism in Europe, the Middle East and Asia by the promotion of social democracy as a “third force”. […]
[…] 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 […]
