[PDF file]: […] by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was […]
[PDF file]: […] the Freedom Association – whose membership consists entirely of far-right Tories (such as the loveable Christopher Chope) and UKIP figures – attacked the BBC for ‘plotting a Labour victory’ in order to protect its licence fee arrangements.33 Naturally, this piece was long on rhetoric and short on details of how the Corporation (which towers […]
[PDF file]: […] SDP in the 1980s. In that latter period he also helped set up Heritage’s London operation, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, while authoring anti- Labour material here alongside his old acquaintance Brian Crozier and 136 Winter 2010 in the United States with Roy Godson (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now […]
[PDF file]: […] had no problem with this despite being well aware of how the Japanese had cruelly mistreated POWs. It is worth noting that by now there was a Labour government in London, and it authorised the rearming and use of Japanese troops in Vietnam and Indonesia as well as in Laos! The fighting in Indonesia, […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at least initially, seems to have been […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
