[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]
[PDF file]: […] on the money supply – monetarism – and its centrality in government economic policy had become adopted by the Thatcher faction of the Conservative Party, apparently by Labour Prime Minister Callaghan2 4 and by sections of the higher media commentariat. In 1980 Friedman presented a series of hour long films with the umbrella title […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]
[PDF file]: […] dominant social groups in these regions tended to be provincial industrialists and the organised working class. Politics was usually dominated by the Liberal and (after 1918) the Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the […]
[PDF file]: […] and Management Studies expanding (nearly one in four US students studies Business or Management subjects).1 It is worth remembering that the Review was set up by New Labour with the personnel appointed to produce exactly that outcome. There was no student representation on the panel (something the LibDems actually condemned at the time – […]
[PDF file]: […] broke up as it lost state support in the era of detente in the 1970s. In the context of a counter-movement against detente, former intelligence officers and labour activists attempted to develop an epistemic community around a theory of intelligence that would provide a basis for renewed state support for political warfare. This theory […]
[PDF file]: […] equivalent of Janis Joplin but never enjoyed comparable success. 5 Peter Hain had, originally, been a very active (and visible) campaigner for the Liberal Party but joined Labour in 1977. 6 Jenner organized a set of festivals in Hyde Park in the late ‘60s and initially managed The Pink Floyd. He also thought Strummer […]
[…] broke up as it lost state support in the era of detente in the 1970s. In the context of a counter-movement against detente, former intelligence officers and labour activists attempted to develop an epistemic community around a theory of intelligence that would provide a basis for renewed state support for political warfare. This theory […]
