[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.16 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.2 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
[PDF file]: […] to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now Lord) Kinnock and Labour without mentioning Robert Maxwell and of New Labour without reference to Michael (now Lord) Levy and Jon (now Lord) Mendelsohn is a serious omission. Some readers […]
[…] correspondence with political figures across Europe, pursuing these interests. She was a friend of Lord Beveridge, and her brother, Richard Denman, sat in Parliament as a Liberal, Labour and National Labour MP See John Lukacs, The Last European War (1976) pp. 59 and 66. 4 6 between 1910 and 1945.7 The question arises, did […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.2 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
[…] anything); a focus on monopoly not ownership as the root fault in capitalism; and a scepticism about democracy and emphasis on leadership. This dovetailed with the emerging Labour revisionism in the 1950s and Kelly notes how Flanders found the elite, factional atmosphere of 146 Winter 2010 the Campaign for Democratic Socialism, formed to defend […]
[PDF file]: […] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been […]
[PDF file]: […] do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess’. Without wanting to labour the point: ‘Rather, we have what might be called a government of all the talentless, incapable of competence in any domain and almost ludicrously inadequate to […]
[PDF file]: […] 34 (Winter 1998). property dealer who had several times hosted prime-minister Margaret Thatcher at his home in Preston. More delivered to Bill Harrison financial profiles of the Labour leader of Preston, the deputy Labour leader of Preston and their wives. When the documents turned up in Merseyside police files it was obvious that they […]
[PDF file]: […] Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer explain in their account of the coup, Bitter Fruit, Arevalo set out four main priorities when he took power: ‘agrarian reform, protection of labour, a better educational system and consolidation of political democracy,’3 ideas most notably expressed in his 1947 Work Code, which improved the conditions for labour. In the […]
