[…] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]
[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) […]
[PDF file]: […] of the path-breakers in helping create this new political world. Let us start with the difficulties he encountered doing his research. In early 1979, under the Callaghan Labour government, John Percival Morton, an elderly British counterinsurgency veteran, was sent to advise the Sri Lankan government on how to suppress Tamil rebels. He was ‘an […]
[PDF file]: […] the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds and ends crop up. The latest […]
[PDF file]: […] – and a Colonial Film Unit that made films about the UK, for showing in the colonies, and films about the colonies, for showing in the UK. Labour invested heavily in this. Predictably, the Tories cut its budget in 1951, only to increase it substantially post-1956. By the 60s, the COI were producing work […]
[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]: […] how to meet the standards. The rules about fire were contained in Approved Document B. There were those who issued warnings. As the act neared Royal Assent, Labour peer Lord Sydney Irving tried to sound the alarm: “I hope that when the government come to consider the building regulations and the guidance in the […]
[PDF file]: Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to […]
[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 […]
