[PDF file]: […] days earlier he had seen Edward Rice, a brother-in-law of Lady Cynthia Mosley, deep in conversation in the House of Commons tea room with James Maxton, Independent Labour Party (ILP) MP for Glasgow, Bridgeton and assumes they are up to something. He confirmed this (24 June 1940) with the comment: ‘Edward Rice came to […]
[PDF file]: […] LangdonO’Donnell, a Sinn Fein TD for Donegal in the 1920s, later published Salud! An Irishman in Spain (1937). 2 2 Davies, a News Chronicle correspondent and former Labour parliamentary candidate, and Geoffrey Brereton, later the author of Inside Spain (1938). The clue to Companys’ martyrdom at the hands of Chilton, King and Hankey was […]
[PDF file]: […] (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 and 1946. 15 and into the North African Desert as part of Churchill’s Eighth Army. ‘Mason-Mac’ managed to keep Maisky […]
[PDF file]: […] the Palestinians as they were supplanted by Zionist settlers. Debunking the Myth is a welcome addition to the small but growing number of books calling the British Empire to account. Such books are sorely needed at the present time. John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
[…] entering related professional fields. From an ideological perspective, it also demonstrated the apprentice’s soundly socialist character, having achieved personal development through willing and voluntary participation in collective labour. After nearly two years of work, Olaf Neitsch completed his apprenticeship and became a qualified ‘journeyman’ professional. The journey he had in mind was a short […]
[PDF file]: […] the Army Chief of Staff, General Schoomaker, who, in turn, gave a copy to the new US commander in Iraq, General Casey. By 2009, even the then Labour Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, a man for whom mediocrity was merely an aspiration, admitted that he was reading the book. More importantly, Nagl became one of […]
[PDF file]: […] cyber technology. The big question remains: how much, if any, of this technology has a back door? Has the insatiable thirst for intel – on friend and foe alike – been catered for? Colin Challen is a former Labour MP and blogs at www.colinchallen.org. ‘Peer Group Pressure’, in Lobster 78 at or . 9 8
[PDF file]: […] When I became interested in the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the late 1970s, it was believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were allpowerful and unaccountable. They are still unaccountable in any real sense (their accountability to Parliament is notional) but […]
[PDF file]: […] and was one of the causes of the inflation of the 1970s (which reached 25% in 1975). That inflation became a stick with which the Tories beat Labour and unions in the 1974-79 period and beyond, 98 Winter 2010 and a section of the Tory right beat the Heathites. Mrs Thatcher and her faction […]
[PDF file]: […] Steele emphasises the Putin regime’s commitment to supporting authoritarianism and encouraging division throughout the West. As for his own political trajectory, he had supported Blair and New Labour, voting for them in 1997 and 2001, but was opposed to the Iraq War. Indeed, the invasion was one of the factors that pushed ‘me away […]
