[…] There were some protests about the QinetiQ scandal. Mark Serwotka of the PCS union described the affair as ‘obscene’. It was condemned by various Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs, and even by the odd Labour MP. The government, however, defended it as a ‘good deal’ for the taxpayer. Indeed, Lord Drayson, then the Minister […]
[…] the miners’ strike of 1984-85, read alongside each other, offer real insights into this epochal confrontation. Seumas Milne’s updated account of this watershed moment in British his tory is investigative journalism at its very best. It is a stunning exposé of the strategy and tactics of right wing elements in the British state and […]
[…] the book has been nicely produced. Newton is that relative rarity, an historian who is economically literate; and the result here is a mix of economics, his tory, politics – and even a dash of parapolitics – so seamless it made me wonder again how anybody ever took seriously historians who don’t know economics. […]
Some reflections on the life, times and politics of Sir James Goldsmith The Clermont Set The Clermont Club was opened in 1962 by John Aspinall after the gaming laws had been liberalised by the MacMillan government.(1)During the 1950s Aspinall built up a personal fortune providing premises for exclusive gambling sessions in London, much of which … Read more
The funding of Blair Sometimes chronology implies causality and sometimes not. Consider the following sequence of events: in January 1994 Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Secretary and career-long member of the Labour Friends of Israel, took a four day freebie trip to Israel, with his wife, at the expense of the Israeli government. Two months … Read more
[…] over of the human race and create what they call the New World Order…… David Icke, who has survived massive ridicule, condemnation and misrepresentation, tells the s tory of this conspiracy and the connection with extra terrestrials and UFOs’. Something there for all the family, David. Icke sounds surprised at being ridiculed. He might […]
[…] There’s also a fair sprinkling of ‘private information’ and ‘personal knowledge’. Thus John Bruce Lockhart’s entry for former Deputy Chief of MI6 and founder of Unison and Tory Action in the 1970s George Kennedy Young (‘…an outstanding figure with his great height red hair…’) rather magnanimously depicts him as ‘…at heart a militant Scottish […]
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[…] by unelected businessmen and security specialists. King called this a ‘businessman’s government’ and Gordon Brown calls it ‘a government of all the talents’. King’s significance in his tory is that he predicted the kind of government that a declining British capitalism would need to facilitate hegemony under the long-term conditions of the coercive state. […]
[…] and straight dealing with journalists. Hobsbawn was the organiser of the Washington Embassy party for her pals in the British American Project after New Labour’s election vic tory in 1997. ‘Big Swing to BAP’ was the headline on the BAP newsletter recording the result of the Blair campaign which Hobsbawn had helped fund and […]
