[PDF file]: […] the fact that some highly skilled professionals make a living out of doing so is hardly a reason to put a stop to it. Writing in 1988, Labour MP Alf Dubs (now Lord Dubs) remarked that organisations seeking to influence Parliament will typically enlist sitting MPs who ‘have a network of contacts as well […]
[PDF file]: […] that far from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the […]
[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]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the […]
[PDF file]: […] in Europe about which I know little and would have difficulty checking. In this situation the reviewer heads for familiar territory and Cottrell has included the anti- Labour events of the 1960s and 70s which I know pretty well; and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section […]
[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]: […] felt obliged to permanently distance himself from News International, Johnson very deliberately decided to publicly associate himself with Murdoch, dismissing the ‘Hacking scandal’ as ‘codswallop’ and a Labour stunt. He very publicly invited Murdoch to be his guest at the Olympics. Without much doubt his thinking is that Murdoch will ride out the ‘Hacking […]
[PDF file]: […] he praises David Lammy’s support for a ‘two-state solution’. (p. 251) The situation looks somewhat different this side of the Atlantic. Here what we see is a Labour government refusing to condemn genocide and continuing to provide Israel with arms and intelligence at the same time as launching an unprecedented assault on civil liberties, […]
[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 […]
[…] Truthdig.com and a widely published writer of power, passion and refinement. He marks the decline of ‘the liberal class’ in the United States – the press, the labour movement, universities, the Democratic party and liberal religious institutions – from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He says there are now no […]
