[…] far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England between 1964 and 66, and the Labour government’s number one enemy in that period. Hang on a minute, I thought, and consulted the index. No entry for Cromer. Back to the text I […]
[…] knowledge of the literature on Africa, Vietnam, Latin America, Middle East, Spanish Civil War, genocide, Balkan conflicts, Ireland, crime and punishment, black writers, the Russian Revolution, communism, Labour Party history, Thatcherism, science and society including nuclear issues, censorship and freedom of speech and of the printed word, feminism, radical working-class authors, human thought, espionage, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The Guardian 16 March 2004 reported that Dr Paul Drayson’s company, PowderJect, was awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain’s biggest arms deal in history […]
Tony Geraghty Harper Collins, London 1998, £19.99 Before dawn one Thursday in December 1998 a team of six Ministry of Defence police raided the home of the writer and journalist, Tony Geraghty. After seven hours, they left taking his computer, modem, disks and work in progress, having charged him under Section V of the Official […]
[…] nominees to the upper house and to the Honours List. While sitting in the Lords as a crossbencher, Stevenson has been a key figure in the New Labour network, as friend and supporter of Blair and Peter Mandelson, and with deep involvement in Demos and the British American Project among other groupings. The North-East […]
[…] when an increasing level of industrial unrest, serious disturbances in Northern Ireland, student revolt, the women’s liberation movement, the reemergence of the revolutionary left and a strong Labour left, all seemed to add up to a challenge on a scale not seen since before the First World War. And this was in an international […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Ramsay and his friends openly strove to reach a deal with Hitler. Nor were they alone. Griffiths notes the effort put into this by Richard Stokes – Labour MP for Ipswich.(4) The Soviet attack on Finland (November 30th 1939) opened the possibility of converting the war from an anti-Hitler crusade into an anti-Stalin crusade. […]
[…] 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 […]
