[PDF file]: […] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the BlairBrown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American and […]
[PDF file]: […] War’ meant for anyone except the white middle-class and the ruling elite, the suppression of demands for peacetime economic justice. As Tony Benn, the recently deceased UK Labour politician, once said: after the war people asked, if we could organise fullemployment for war, why couldn’t we organise fullemployment for peace?4 This question was answered […]
[PDF file]: […] interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them (Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there was no alternative other than […]
[PDF file]: […] the back of the Mini which had rescued him when his official car broke down,23 George Brown was the premier comic political figure of his time. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell suddenly died in 1963, George Brown was widely expected to be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his […]
[PDF file]: […] happen? Some had few doubts: ‘he Prime Minister felt resentment towards his predecessor, Harold Wilson. Soviet espionage was, in Heath’s view, only one of many issues the Labour government had handled badly between 1964 and 1970. Wilson and his colleagues, though well aware of the problem caused by increasing numbers of Soviet spies, had […]
[…] interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them (Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there was no alternative other than […]
[…] 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 Irish 4 The sections in italics, INQ 1873, have been added by hand in the original. In 1987 someone anonymously sent me a collection of anti- Labour forgeries from the mid 1970s period. They were reproduced at end of Paul Foot’s Who framed Colin Wallace?, still available from . One of those forgeries, […]
[PDF file]: […] on 4 November, the day before England went into its second national lockdown, the House of Commons voted 516 to 38 in favour of the restrictions, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats backing the government. But 50 Conservative MPs rebelled, either by voting against the motion or abstaining; and in the three-hour debate before […]
[…] was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of the then Yugoslavia. 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 […]
