[PDF file]: […] a far greater scandal than ‘Hackgate’, but it goes virtually unremarked. Indeed, it looks as if Murdoch is actually succeeding in the old game of playing the Labour and Conservative parties off against each other. Not only has the Murdoch press given Cameron a public warning, but the Sun also made clear that it […]
[PDF file]: […] the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government and the Foreign Office made serious attempts, without success, to acquire […]
[PDF file]: […] the Earth: A World Survey of Soil Erosion, published in 1939. Released from internment, in 1942 he joined the Rural Reconstruction Association, founded in 1925 by the Labour Party activist Montague Fordham, remaining a member until his death. From 1942 onwards he was also active in the agricultural section of the Economic Reform Club, […]
[PDF file]: […] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[…] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[PDF file]: […] B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power in Britain by closing down […]
[PDF file]: […] times, and certainly pre-1979, the monthly trade figures were a piece of ritualised political theatre that required urgent announcements, elaborate explanations, and, sometimes, finished political careers (usually Labour). This is no longer the case. Even The Times opined that Britain imports too much and its only hope if it wishes to reverse this is […]
[PDF file]: […] from Balls As winter approaches some people suffer from seasonally affective disorder (SAD). I get CAD, conference affective disorder, a creeping gloom produced by reports from the Labour Party conference. It’s not just that they’re so obviously more concerned with careers than the national interest – that’s a given these days – they’re so […]
[PDF file]: […] in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s diary is quite unlike the Labour Party equivalents I have read. In those there are policy disagreements but personal abuse is largely absent. I can’t decide if this says something about Duncan, […]
[PDF file]: […] clear purpose, and his triangulation and Third Way politics underscored his policy vacuum. It seemed natural then that, wishing to emulate Clinton’s election success in 1992, New Labour would ramp up the use of heavily US-influenced market research techniques prior to the 1997 UK election. This was ‘the modernisers’ way of doing politics and […]
