Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the trade union movement as being under the control of Russian agents did not have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the s tory as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

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[PDF file]: […] November 9 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, and September 11 2001, with the attacks on New York and Washington. So this is a social his tory of Britain during not only the first post-Cold War decade but also (to date) the most hopeful. There was to be a ‘new world order’, supervised […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: […] so – not expecting it ever to come to light – no-one at Number 10 bothered to go through the redundant procedural rigmarole of vetting him again. Tory Party like it’s 1992 A nd so the Miliband rocket proved to be a damp squib at the ballot booth and now the brothers (and sisters) […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s s tory can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + Nigeria’. The comments in the online condolence book for Smith at show that Harold was held in high […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s s tory can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + Nigeria’. The comments in the online condolence book for Smith1 show that Harold was held in high regard […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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[PDF file]: […] heart of anti-socialist campaigns, caucuses and clandestine operations in British trade unions since the war. This essay is about those operations. (That Tribune thought the Jordan s tory worthy of just one line on page 3 shows how little this area is understood in Britain – even on the left.) Debts I am grateful […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] his book, The Starmer Project, published in 2022 – essential reading for anyone concerned to understand Starmer’s time at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), his overall trajec tory and the politics of Bad Labour. The contrast between Baldwin’s sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] his book, The Starmer Project, published in 2022 – essential reading for anyone concerned to understand Starmer’s time at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), his overall trajec tory and the politics of Bad Labour. The contrast between Baldwin’s sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] that I 13 14 See for example . 15 Chinese dumping is discussed here: . wonder if there isn’t another explanation, such as the Chinese bribing the Tory Party. Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail was honest enough to recognise some of what is happening in his column on 1 April, ‘We’ve sold our […]

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