[PDF file]: […] (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 and 1946. 15 and into the North African Desert as part of Churchill’s Eighth Army. ‘Mason-Mac’ managed to keep Maisky […]
[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]
[PDF file]: […] property relations and education guaranteed the reproduction of the system. Known in Marxist literature as a ‘comprador class’, it would tend to welcome the inward investment and labour which facilitated a lop-sided national development privileging its own extensive economic interests.5 Money, the greater part of it from London, therefore flowed into extractive and agricultural […]
[PDF file]: […] cyber technology. The big question remains: how much, if any, of this technology has a back door? Has the insatiable thirst for intel – on friend and foe alike – been catered for? Colin Challen is a former Labour MP and blogs at www.colinchallen.org. ‘Peer Group Pressure’, in Lobster 78 at or . 9 8
[PDF file]: […] the Palestinians as they were supplanted by Zionist settlers. Debunking the Myth is a welcome addition to the small but growing number of books calling the British Empire to account. Such books are sorely needed at the present time. John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
[PDF file]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]
[PDF file]: […] 5 What people are waiting for is the government to publish the new rules aimed at outlawing blacklisting as it pledged to do back in 1999. Many Labour MPs were shocked to find that Kerr could only be prosecuted under data protection laws because of this anomaly. Ministers at the Department for Business, Innovation […]
[PDF file]: […] the Army Chief of Staff, General Schoomaker, who, in turn, gave a copy to the new US commander in Iraq, General Casey. By 2009, even the then Labour Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, a man for whom mediocrity was merely an aspiration, admitted that he was reading the book. More importantly, Nagl became one of […]
[PDF file]: […] – were saved by billions in drug money in 2008? Does the fact that Japan exploited both Korea and Vietnam to provide cheap food for its industrial labour force have any bearing on the US decision to invade those countries when its official Asia policy was to rebuild Japan as an Asian platform for […]
[…] recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front. 19 6 kind of bagman for the CIA front, the International Rescue […]
