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Thatcher versus the City of London
[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 […]
Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…
[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, […]
Signs of the times
[PDF file]: […] looked last. 1 Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. This is a condensation of his ‘Covid-19 and the Failure of the Neoliberal Regula tory State’, (co-authored with Australian Professor Shahar Hameiri) in the Review of International Political Economy. 2 Forsyth implicitly and Jones explicitly are condemning the neoliberalism we have […]
Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards
[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 […]
Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell
[PDF file]: […] help fix it Alastair Campbell London: Hutchinson Heinemann, £22.00 John Booth Here we have two approaches to politics and public life which are also partly the s tory of two Neils. Neil Findlay is a former Labour member of the Scottish Parliament and a long-time grass-roots activist. Neil Kinnock was the Labour leader who […]
Friends of Israel
[PDF file]: […] This didn’t seem to me a winning national election strategy, so I took myself off to the Midlands for a few days where on 8 June a Tory marginal was duly won by Labour. Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel as I later discovered, benefitted from a 9.4 per cent swing to […]
Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
[PDF file]: […] discussion of the CPGB-Moscow relationship, but which does not cover the ‘Moscow gold’, see ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain and Moscow’, Stephen Hopkins, in Labour His tory History Review, Vol 57, No. 3, Winter 1992. 1 For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 November […]
Friends of Israel Booth PDF
[…] This didn’t seem to me a winning national election strategy, so I took myself off to the Midlands for a few days where on 8 June a Tory marginal was duly won by Labour. Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel as I later discovered, benefitted from a 9.4 per cent swing to […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in […]