[…] Pursuing this, it is getting into bed with the big tech companies. Lucas Amin and Peter Geoghegan noted: New figures obtained by Democracy for Sale reveal that Labour ministers and senior civil servants met with tech industry executives and lobbyists an average of six times a week during the government’s first six months in […]
[…] Pursuing this, it is getting into bed with the big tech companies. Lucas Amin and Peter Geoghegan noted: New figures obtained by Democracy for Sale reveal that Labour ministers and senior civil servants met with tech industry executives and lobbyists an average of six times a week during the government’s first six months in […]
[PDF file]: […] oppositionist stance as his opportunity to destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold Wilson in any future leadership contest within the Labour Party. It soon becomes clear that Callaghan and the trade unions have mobilised a majority against Castle and Wilson. Although considering In Place of Strife to […]
[PDF file]: […] much of all this was known to Prince Bandar’s good friend in the Oval Office, and when. Smith’s myths The campaign to elect Owen Smith MP as Labour Party leader has been making claims that do not accord with verifiable facts, but the media are reporting them unquestioningly. Chief among these is the claim […]
[PDF file]: […] – or perhaps because of – the Kagame regime’s wholly justified reputation for repression and murder. The grim reality is that both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition are very much in bed with the Kagame regime, and have been for many years now. Indeed the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in […]
[PDF file]: […] Atkinson’s on his site, you will understand this. Here are two quotations. The first is from Elliott and Atkinson (p. 282) quoting the late Peter Shore, sometime Labour cabinet minister and one of the few Labour MPs to understand political economy. ‘Peter Shore asked how a country was to regain competitiveness once it had […]
[…] describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MOD-NATO et al in the context of the history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having […]
[…] describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MOD-NATO et al in the context of the history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having […]
[PDF file]: […] have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept official sophistries at face value. So, we are seriously told […]
[PDF file]: […] major part of the answer is that the Conservative governments of the 1980s cut back taxing and spending and let the public sector decline. (And the New Labour governments followed suit.) After 40 years of neglect, the comparison between public provision and public spaces in the UK and the rest of the EU is […]
