[PDF file]: Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party Colin Challen When Jeremy Corbyn vacated the leadership of the Labour Party – even after a bruising general election in 2019 – the party was left with around £13 million in the kitty. In the years that followed that balance was gradually whittled away, until the party […]
[PDF file]: […] new report came across my email transom that reminded me of some harsh realities in today’s Middle East. It was the latest Costs of War report from Brown University— The CIA’s Army: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. It stated, “the CIA is still running local militias in […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party (PLP) were the dilapidated remains of New Labour, the construct that had effected some positive change in its 13 years under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but which had steadily lost members and electoral support before its 2010 defeat.4 Williamson had campaigned to make Ed Miliband leader and for a while was […]
[PDF file]: […] National Archives file AVIA 101/745 is perhaps most interesting not for what it contains but for its folder. In common with such files of government paperwork, the brown card ‘dust jacket’ bears columns that record to whom the completed file was referred and on what date, allowing a reader to trace its bureaucratic travels. […]
[PDF file]: […] Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and the Barclay Brothers, it has sustained a series of Conservative governments since 2010. It propelled the country towards Euroscepticism even in the Blair- Brown era and achieved its most spectacular success in the 2016 referendum and 2019 General Election. The politics and economics of Brexit are therefore right-wing, fusing neoliberalism […]
[PDF file]: […] ally, the Soviet Union, real wars with weapons of mass destruction were waged by the US throughout the planet – mainly against what George Carlin called ‘ brown people’. The phoney war was dead serious in that US strategic planners – several of whom were outright fascists recruited from Eastern Europe or Germany – […]
[PDF file]: […] 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is at or 2 2 demonising Muslims […]
[PDF file]: […] territory. I’m telling you now, if you don’t get those squaddies off the roof, none of you will be coming to the Thursday night disco in your brown boots and mufti.19 The firing duly ceased. At the City Hotel, with some tuition by Stanley Bonnett, the international press had perfected a confidential system of […]
