[…] Lords but was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of Serbia. In September 2015 Skidelsky endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, writing in The Guardian: Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the […]
[PDF file]: […] The point was not lost on Roosevelt and the informal coalition of progressives, Keynesians, socialists, social-democrats (‘liberals’ in US political discourse), communists, left-wing populists, farmers and organised labour which supported his administration. They were committed to a ‘New Deal’ for the American people, a break from the old politics which had generally avoided (outside […]
[…] not the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]
[PDF file]: […] of goods, panic buying and the disruption of industry. A dock strike did take place, in July 1984, with dockers coming out following the use of non-union labour to unload iron ore at the Immingham dock on the Humber. As a result Thatcher and her colleagues in MISC101 drew up plans for ‘Operation Halberd’, […]
[…] 9 25 their oil and gas taps. That would have got their attention PDQ. Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]
[…] of goods, panic buying and the disruption of industry. A dock strike did take place, in July 1984, with dockers coming out following the use of non-union labour to unload iron ore at the Immingham dock on the Humber. As a result Thatcher and her colleagues in MISC101 drew up plans for ‘Operation Halberd’, […]
[PDF file]: […] was that the City asked for lighter and lighter supervision – and boy, did it get it. It was part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend […]
[PDF file]: […] – but it was in the blood. His view of most English politicians was highly negative – ‘squeamish’ and ‘old women’ are two characteristic descriptions – especially Labour ministers of course, who ‘with less of a feeling of the “White Man’s Burden” on their shoulders’ (that’s Edwards) were quite happy to begin the ‘scuttle’, […]
[PDF file]: […] sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart espouses many soft-left (for a Conservative) […]
[…] the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. *new* Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]
