[…] is professionally produced, with full-colour illustrations, lots of photographs, and all the industry-standard lay-out techniques. Issue 3 is 40 pages, with essays on aspects of Maastricht, New Labour and Blairism’s impact (or lack of it) on the EU, the MIA proposals, Brian Burkitt of Bradford University on the economics of EMU; as well as […]
[…] other staples to every Iraqi’.(22) What’s more, until sanctions and all the attendant misery and corruption, it was so prosperous that it was a net importer of labour, had a highly developed infrastructure, fabulous healthcare and superb universities. Which is to say, Iraq was never, ever, anything like Stalin’s Soviet Union. War intelligence, March […]
[…] the current editor. For contact details click here. Books by Robin Ramsay Politics and Paranoia (Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin […]
[…] July, 1993) from Cavendish pointing out that he, that is Cavendish, was among the founders of the Democratic Party of Britain in the 1960s with disillusioned former Labour MP Desmond Donnelly — long before Crozier and others formed the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s. Cavendish notes in his letter that the Democratic Prty […]
[…] creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that nothing has changed – because nothing could change. He treats the claims that Labour is running […]
[…] of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major knew better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in opposition saying he wanted to see ‘a publicly accountable, […]
[…] numerous high profile Private Eye battles, nothing seemed simpler to a left-liberal movement in desperate search of something to be angry about at the height of New Labour triumphalism. Quickly, groups like the ICA and a queue of liberal lefties jumped on the dubious bandwagon. But what does LM stand for and where have […]
[…] recruited by the DS. (ibid pp.225-6) ‘Prepared Statement of Jack R. Perry, Retired Foreign Service Officer and Former US Ambassador to Bulgaria’ in US Congress, Committee on Labour and Human Resources (see note 207) p.64. Unlike Adams, Perry has great experience of Bulgarian affairs and is fluent both in Russian and Bulgarian. Ibid. Contra […]
[…] The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s a media asset of the British Army, and Ryder portrays King as the man who showed the Labour Government in 1974 that the Ulster Workers’ Council general strike could not be resisted. Another perspective would put King in charge while the British Army and […]
[…] 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 […]
