[…] writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also 1 The accusation seems to be false. But what does the truth actually matter […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
