[…] a nationalist or a trouble-maker, or is assumed to be launching a crude leadership bid.'(5) (emphasis added) Opposing the European Union (EU), a section of the British Labour Left is in danger of contamination by a section of the Tory Right, which also opposes the EU. Labour Left opponents of the EU thus to […]
[…] if there was ever to be access to office. This is what most of us who are over a certain age would recognise as politics. The New Labour revolution of the mid-1990s (a reaction to an earlier Leftist attempt to capture the Movement and so the Party) took what it thought was the easy […]
[…] is not attempted by Hosken. This is a great shame as there are signs from other sources that Ken himself was politically active prior to joining the Labour Party. It was recently reported that Sir Christopher Gent, currently Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, said that Livingstone had been an Executive Member of the Young Conservatives, in […]
[…] origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, who had served in one of the ‘secret armies’ (The Phantoms) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. The received chronology […]
[…] part of Labour’s Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The fourth, Dr John Reid, has spoken at TUCETU conferences. Peter Mandelson, the most […]
[…] but also brings us nearest to the present with his critique of the British newspaper columnists who supported the Iraq invasion. George Galloway MP, expelled from the Labour Party after allegations about his closeness to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, brings together elements of the other three in a stinging criticism of Tony […]
[…] for sustainable development.’ The Green Globe Task Force shares an office with Green Alliance in Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1. The Green Business Evening at the 1998 Labour Party Conference was funded, somewhat alarmingly given their extensive road building interests, by Tarmac, a major Green Alliance supporter. The government has an Advisory Committee on […]
Labour Party PLC David Osler Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, £15.99, 2002 Colin Challen MP Having written a history of Conservative Party funding, (1) I had been wondering when somebody would get round to doing a similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks […]
Introduction I write this as a member of ‘old Labour’, and like others of that ilk, I am looking for a way out of the present farce-cum-nightmare of a Labour Party lead by a tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1) To understand where we are now, we have to go back to the […]
The most reported episode at the 2002 Labour Party Conference was the tour of Blackpool made by ex-President Clinton and film star Kevin Spacey. Given the status and photogenic nature of the individuals concerned this was hardly surprising. Little was said in the media, though, about the duos’ grand entrance, accompanied by the Prime […]
