[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in […]
[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside S tory of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by […]
[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Conspiracies and cover-ups T he past year has not been an easy one for those who view his tory as just one bumbling cock-up after another. The Hillsborough inquiry1 revealed a co-ordinated effort by a large number of public servants not only to deny justice to the families and friends of […]
[PDF file]: […] can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky at or . 2 3 He is profiled at . and employment . . . .’ (p. 109) His explana tory comments are these: ‘Her government’s economic and exchange rate policies may have brought down inflation, but they took no prisoners as export orders dried up and […]
[…] Well, here we are. According to a report by the The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) – to quote the subheading of their s tory – ‘While some enjoy a standard of living comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest are now poorer than the poorest parts of […]
[PDF file]: […] subsequent behaviour of Johnson (and Dominic Cummings), it is easy to forget that there are only 365 Conservative MPs. In fact, so loudly has their 2019 vic tory been proclaimed and so quiet have been the opposition parties since that debacle, an acceptance seems to be abroad that either very little can be done […]
[PDF file]: […] a ferocious temper in private and never forgives a slight. This makes Sonia Purnell’s Just Boris all the more timely. She provides a really quite incredible his tory of privilege, dishonesty, misjudgement and disaster. To be fair, he did spend his gap year in Africa, teaching orphaned children in the slums of Lagos. Only […]
[PDF file]: Get In: The Inside S tory of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund London: The Bodley Head, 2025, £25, h/b Colin Challen One of the earlier books seeking to answer the questions of who and what Keir Starmer is and represents was Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right […]
[PDF file]: […] and has been little mentioned in the mainstream press that lauded Johnson while hounding the former Derby North MP. It follows several books on the recent his tory of the Labour party, including one by Lee Garratt, a Williamson supporter. I repeat now for transparency’s sake the declaration of personal acquaintance with Williamson I […]
