[…] Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: the Attorney General: No. Anti- Labour leaflet Much reduced, this is the front cover of an anti-Labour leaflet put out by Information Policy in Northern Ireland. The text, on the other side […]
[…] MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely […]
[…] with the former President and the joint enthusiasm for the ‘third way’ of the two men. In part the answer goes to the heart of Blair’s ‘new Labour’ administration. This has never made any secret of its Atlanticism, many of its key advisers and ministers having spent years as members of the ‘British-American Project […]
The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]
[…] whom, and about whose thinking, they knew almost nothing. The readily available sources of information on the Tories were then slight: in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of amplifying the fascist ‘threat’ to bolster support for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the […]
[…] 138) George Thomson, later ennobled as Lord Thomson of Monifieth, was one of the leading pro-EEC members of the Wilson Cabinet and a former Chair of the Labour Committee for Europe. He resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in 1973 when Labour policy shifted into an anti-EEC position, and joined the European Commission. Thomson is […]
[…] was brought down by the Norwegian fiasco (for which Churchill was primarily responsible!), he only succeeded to the office of Prime Minister at the insistence of the Labour Party, who refused to serve under Chamberlain’s candidate, Lord Halifax. This was an historic choice because Halifax would certainly have made peace. Nevertheless Labour’s crucial role […]
[…] was a Conrad Black paper for which Ledeen wrote, The Daily Telegraph, which lost the libel action in which they claimed the Baghdad ‘documents’ fingered the then Labour MP George Galloway. During the Reagan presidency Ledeen was deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, along with another old neo-con associate, John Negroponte (a key administration […]
[…] Matthews, Grattan Healey, David Turner, Jane Affleck, Harlan Girard, Anthony Frewin and Tom Easton for cuttings and other material since the last issue. Two years into New Labour and the loudest sound is the sound of surprise being expressed by people who ought to know better. There were the animal welfare and right-to-roam lobbies […]
[…] actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious Edward Short Swiss bank account, have been published as a pamphlet, The Anti- Labour Forgeries, by Labour CRISIS – PO Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year […]
