[…] did a little checking. The earliest version of this theme I have found appeared in the 1963 Jack and Bessie Braddock book The Braddocks. (The Braddocks were Labour MPs who began on the left and ended on the Catholic right.) There, between pages 223-5, Bessie quotes at some length from a document headed ‘Cominform […]
[…] in Dalston Road, Hackney by ‘booking’ it through overnight vigils….the communists (CP variety) were nowhere to be seen, let alone members of the Hackney or Stoke Newington Labour parties…that Common Wealth was no more than a debating society was a slur by the Marxists who never forgave us for our rejection of ‘scientific’ socialism […]
[…] Hubbard Jnr. mentions two famous people who were involved with Hubbard Snr. One was Errol Flynn and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father […]
[…] still appears on toilets) – but as an adjective for any sort of ‘capitalism’ it is an oxymoron (just like the obverse notion of an ‘aristocracy of labour’, which at least was deliberately ironic). The cult of the ‘gentleman’ in the 19th century was part of a cultural strategy for assimilating manufacturers (presumably with […]
[…] for the Bush way of doing things. Harken Energy was formed in 1973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilise Australia’s Labour government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). A decade later, Harken was sold to a new investment group headed by New York attorney […]
[…] to assault us. And when they looked for published information on the antecedents of this group of people and organisations, they found almost nothing there – just Labour Research (God bless ’em) and a few books and pamphlets in libraries What has happened is clearly enough. Hughes began researching the Economic League and, en […]
[…] the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult is the New Labour group currently fronting the Labour Party. Tony Blair gives every indication to me of being about to drift away on a pillow of guff from his […]
[…] This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of the IRA.” ‘ According to Burns, the paper presented a scenario ‘in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] […]
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
[…] and Searchlight sharing journalists and photographers. (2) Daphne Liddle is a member of the NCP; works for both the New Worker and Searchlight; defended Searchlight in the Labour Briefing debate on Searchlight in late 1992; edited Forewarned Against Fascism in the late 1970s; and was apparently the lover of Searchlight’s ‘mole’ in Column 88, […]
