[PDF file]: […] our own; we do not see what we are not already predisposed to see.’ 36 The wrong kind of member The EHRC report on anti-semitism in the Labour Party found . . . not very much;37 what they did find hinged on debatable definitions of anti-semitism; and most of it was the responsibility of […]
[PDF file]: […] some of the history of Britain, France and the United States in relation to Islam, it reminds us why the struggle for principle and truth in the Labour movement is so important and why an understanding of the past is such a crucial component of committed comradeship. Not that Oborne has himself been part […]
[PDF file]: […] Tories in the Euro elections of 2019, they had no choice. The short-lived Change UK party was also set up as a private company, with an ex- Labour MP as its director. Social media is an area known to be notoriously difficult to regulate, even if – a big if – the tech-giants actually […]
[PDF file]: […] had proved so destructive, committed itself to sustaining through its own spending an overall level of economic activity (‘aggregate demand’) capable of generating the full employment of labour and capital. This was supplemented by support for welfare states financed by progressive taxation and the proceeds of economic growth. Workers enjoyed job security and good […]
[PDF file]: […] – the economy, especially in the South – could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labour. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone […]
[…] disproportionate costs for firms. (Emphasis added.) Shorting is gambling on future share prices. Far from encouraging it, you might 9 or 10 11 5 think that a Labour government would simply ban it. But hey, if the gambling is made easier, we’ll get have of it in London. Economic growth! You think? You may […]
[PDF file]: […] to ensure effective Parliamentary democratic scrutiny of the intelligence and security services.’ It was signed by just 9 of the House of Commons current 650 members, eight Labour MPs and one Liberal-Democrat.26 25 26 12 security. An informed and responsible debate is needed.’ ‘……should be able to undertake its own investigations as the members […]
[…] the Guardian (19 March 2011), ‘Thatcher papers reveal how she stoked rightwing rebellion in war against “wets”’, notes that Thatcher’s private secretary, Ian Gow MP, met with Labour MP Neville Sandelson, six months before Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose […]
[PDF file]: […] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
[…] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
