[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]
[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.
[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]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]
[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
[…] recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front. 19 6 kind of bagman for the CIA front, the International Rescue […]
[PDF file]: […] was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened through subscription to a ludicrously flawed ideology, the “revolving door’” […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] started – as a major mistake. Lennox-Boyd, in turn, was a close political ally of Churchill. In another twist Ann Fleming was also having an affair with Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell (whom Eden personally disliked). Fleming’s property in Jamaica was not particularly well appointed and was somewhat isolated. During Eden’s stay at the […]
