[…] prospective candidates were insufficiently robust on this issue. The Goldsmith effect By 1995 it seemed clear to many observers of UK politics that Tony Blair and the Labour Party, now packaged as the ‘New Labour project’, were likely to do very well at the forthcoming general election. For a range of reasons, notably the […]
[…] Standards in Public Life about the influence of the Israeli lobby in the UK, is on-line.(5) Most usefully, it includes details of the Conservative as well as Labour Friends of Israel. The authors comment: ‘In the meantime your Committee is aware how the lobby group, Friends of Israel, has embedded itself in the British […]
[…] His marriage to Lord Curzon’s daughter, Cimmie, consolidated his position within the country’s governing elite. Impatience for preferment led to his defection from the Conservatives to the Labour Party where he was welcomed with open arms. Both he and his wife became Labour MPs and in 1929 he became a junior minister in the […]
[…] of what we might call the politics of intelligence in the 1990s, from the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee through to the collapse of the Labour Party: from feisty words and talk of action in opposition to the forelock-tugging we now see. The authors point out that, while Shayler was sitting in […]
Contributors to this issue Don Bateman has a PhD in history, and has written widely on labour and trade union issues. Alex Cox is a film-maker and can be seen on BBC2 introducing the series Moviedrome. Phil Edwards a former chair of the Socialist Society, lives in Manchester and works as a systems analyst. […]
[…] to the CIA (p. 275). This is by far the most detailed account of Bilderberg’s origins and even includes a picture of the first meeting, with then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell on the very back row. Wilford thanks 8 bodies for financial assistance and 16 US libraries. The available archival bushes seem to have […]
[…] is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts to resolve the conflict. The authors show us the senior […]
[…] ways Justice Delayed is more shocking than his Eichmann biography because with that book we know what to expect. What Justice Delayed revealed was that the 1945-1951 Labour government did its best to keep Jewish Holocaust survivors out of Britain, but had no problem with allowing in Baltic veterans of the SS. While there […]
[…] turns out to be a little old lady from suburban Bexleyheath who sells the Morning Star, drinks tea from a Che Guevara mug and makes jam for Labour Party bazaars. Ironically, the octogenarian Tankie in question, Mrs Letty Norwood, is just about the only person to emerge from the whole sorry tale with any […]
[…] the next President of the US and a future British political leader just the kind of people the Bilderbergers would want to have a look at. Labour leader John Smith was then on Bilderberg’s steering committee and brought Brown in. For Smith to play this role there had to be more to him […]
