[…] 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 […]
[…] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the Blair-Brown 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 (nominally) Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American […]
[…] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. He […]
[PDF file]: […] State: How America Runs Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] was the man who had famously been exposed as not having any idea of the level of JobSeekers Allowance at the hustings during the campaign for the Labour Party leadership! And once he had lost that election decided to devote himself to making money, lots of money. In 2011-2012, he earned a modest £446,000 […]
[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 […]
[…] interfere.’ Thus the opening paragraph by Kim Sengupta in his review of the Mark Curtis 26 book, Secret Affairs. I wrote about political contamination in ‘Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites’ in Lobster 33. 25 26 10 Community? Whatever that means! Can you think of anything more vague or more useless? Grauniadia […]
