[…] Blair is Man of the Year, 1996 – or would have been, had this delightful scam not been discovered and the BBC suspended voting. (1) Jules Hurry, Labour party member and former civil servant from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, had signed a letter from Labour’s campaign HQ that was circulated to […]
[…] his disadvantage. He is a rather more mundane figure than the PR machine would have us believe. Early Blair The PM had no great connection with the Labour Party (his father was a Conservative barrister, widely tipped as likely to get a seat in Parliament before a disabling stroke) and has, arguably, no great […]
I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated […]
[…] I presume – sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his story about anti- Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists who were trying to understand […]
[…] is the new catchall defence. He challenges head-on the Blair claim to be a force for good in the world: ‘The reality is that Britain under New Labour is a systematic violator of international law and ethical standards in its foreign policy – in effect, an outlaw state. It is a key ally of […]
[…] League’s fifth annual review (1925) states that the League was originally known as the Central Council of the Economic League, and prior to that, as National Propaganda. Labour Research, on the other hand, in an early piece on the League (58) refers to the Central Council of the Economic Leagues (plural), known, prior to […]
The Sewer not the Sewage? David Mills, Berlusconi and New Labour Imagine that Robert Maxwell had become British Prime Minister. A similar situation actually obtains in Italy with the premiership of Silvio Berlusconi. I examine below one strand of Berlusconi’s activities, mainly through his relationship with one of his senior lawyers. Until recently, David […]
[…] Europe and the United States supported. With considerable assistance from various American government agencies, including financial help, backed up by numbers of US trade unionists working as labour attachés in American embassies in Europe, the British TUC, the French FO, the Swedish LO, the American CIO (but not the AFL), and a number of […]
[…] to pollster and ‘strategist’ to the prime minister and if we are to believe him, senior US and Israeli politicians coincided with that of New Labour. His associate for much of that time, Deborah Mattinson, now heads Opinion Leader Research (OLR), part of the Chime Communications empire of Tim (since 1990, Lord) […]
[…] a handful of socialists featured here. Some, like Stokes, were more Right wing than Conservatives like Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. Others, like Maxton and the Independent Labour Party group, operated from a conviction that war was a product of imperialism, which in itself was the highest stage of capitalism. It was therefore the […]
