[…] is of a disturbed child, completely out of control. His rebellion at preparatory school and later at Harrow public school. In 1950 he painted the slogan VOTE LABOUR on a number of college walls (this did not indicate any youthful leftism, just that he thought this would cause more offense than anything else he […]
[…] the Whitehall trough, offered this paragraph in a piece in the Evening Standard (13 May, 1993), ‘Why Windsors aren’t tapped by Her Majesty’s secret service’: ‘The post-war Labour government was so determined to ensure that MI5 could never become a Gestapo that it proved wholly ineffective at monitoring the growth of domestic subversion, or […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly – or not – Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] protest outside Westminster, even as he was charming the Chinese Defence chief inside. (19) Then there is ‘ex-foreign office mandarin Ben Chapman MP, ‘torpedoed into a safe Labour seat at the ’97 election’, (20) who is now parliamentary private secretary to Export Credit Guarantee Department Minister Richard Caborn whose department considers funding for construction […]
