Peter Jones I.B. Tauris, London, 1997, £39.50 hb This is a dull run through the conventional post-war history of the Labour Party in relation to the USA. Jones takes as a given that the Labour Party in the post-war years should be pro-American, and therefore does not think it worth explaining how this came […]
[…] the Pinay Circle, Interdoc etc. etc. far too many even for a list. But here are some fairly typical snippets. He tells us (p. 108) that when Labour won the election in 1974, IRD dropped its briefings on subversion in Britain. This may explain why Colin Wallace was in such demand post February 1974. […]
[…] the politicians. Palast’s concerns are the main agenda: America, the power of the corporations; the institutions of the new world order – and, almost a sideshow, New Labour. In the last few years he has exposed the nature of the New Labour government in the ‘cash for access’ affair; discovered how the Republicans stole […]
Horses for courses? Labour MP Denis MacShane used the hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of […]
David Craig and Richard Brooks London: Constable, 2006, £9.99, p/b When the Blair faction took office in 1997 as ‘New Labour’ we knew that they were going to be pro-American, pro-NATO, pro-business, anti-union and media conscious. What we did not know then was just how completely they had internalised the Thatcher ethos, how […]
[…] post-war Head of Military Intelligence War Office, Overlord in Malaya, and had headed a similar, but secret inquiry initiated by Attlee. The Right Hon. Kenneth Younger. Former Labour M.P. for Grimsby, the constituency ‘handed on’ to Tony Crosland. His cousin William Younger worked for Maxwell Knight as did ‘Bill’s’ mother Joan (Mrs Dennis Wheatley) […]
[…] Big Swing to BAP’. This began: ‘No less than four British-American Project Fellows and one Advisory Board Member have been appointed to ministerial posts in the new Labour government.’ New names on the BAP roster include Geoff (from Militant via Red Wedge to the PM’s Office) Mulgan, Julia (not now, daddy, I’m busy) Hobsbawm, […]
[…] post-Hungary climate irrefutable exposure of the Soviet connection would have terminally damaged the CP, and in the medium to long term, this would only have benefitted the Labour Party. For the Red Scare — at whose core was the link to Moscow — has been a key feature in the political armoury of the […]
[…] book (1) kind of parallel some of the things that I have been writing about elsewhere. I began publishing Lobster in 1983; and I also joined the Labour Party that year, partly, I confess, because it seemed a likely source of stories for a local lefty magazine I was involved in. In the mid […]
[…] insufficiently remarked upon in the various Callaghan obituaries. This first came to attention in November 1960 during the election to chose a new deputy leader for the Labour Party. Brown was highly thought of. A bright man with impeccable working class credentials and good trade union connections, he had served as Minister for Works […]
