[PDF file]: […] claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster and 1979 is their Year Zero. There is a curious symmetry here: at the end of the […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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) […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic his tory Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches […]
