[…] 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]: […] process which involves ‘commissions’ is no big problem for business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the Hertfordshire Health Authority from 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov.13 In June […]
[PDF file]: […] boom Britain could do no wrong. Its flexible economy flourished, easily outpacing the performance of our European neighbours. Never before had the country been so rich. New Labour could afford to pour record investment into public services, all paid for by taxes from world leading financial services. Waiting lists for hospitals continued to drop. […]
[PDF file]: […] outraged. Their silence has even extended to Trump’s exonerating Kim from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian […]
[…] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. There […]
[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and New […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
