[…] now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a his tory of Christian Socialism; a two volume history of Parliament; biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson; an insufficiently critical history of the British aristocracy; and a […]
[PDF file]: […] histories of British Fascism, such as Martin Pugh’s Hurrah for the Blackshirts! British Fascism Between the Wars, 1919-1939, or else included as part of a general his tory of Fascism up to the present day, such as Richard Thurlow’s Fascism in Britain: A History, 1918-1985. It is meticulously footnoted and, in addition to the […]
[PDF file]: […] written a very interesting essay on the growth of the Kelly conspiracy theories.4 Cometh the hour A nd then there as the case of Rory Stewart, new Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, still sort of trying to deny that he was an MI6 officer. A piece in the Telegraph 5 said ‘Stewart […]
[PDF file]: […] illiteracy of our politicians. I don’t mean their grasp of economic theory, most of which is bollocks or irrelevant; I mean their grasp of our economic his tory and the structural conflict between domestic and overseas economies. The last prime minister to understand this was Harold Wilson. Edward Heath did economics as part of […]
[…] CIA. We applied the Agency’s very best operational, analytic, and technical tradecraft to what is one of the largest and most intensive investigations in the Agency’s his tory. The CIA remains committed to ensuring continued access to care for affected officers and to fully investigating any reports of health incidents. (Emphasis added.) And yet […]
[PDF file]: […] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]
[…] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]
[PDF file]: […] any change of administration is followed immediately by a slew of books, as its participants cash in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of his tory into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, […]
[PDF file]: […] over their Daily Expresses (it was an Express reporter who coined the ‘Mad Mitch’ soubriquet), in the midst of a generally dispiriting period in their international his tory (for those who bothered about these things); before Crater was finally evacuated, and the Argylls flown back to ‘a grey cold, depressing Britain’ to the strains […]
