[PDF file]: […] and Tony Benn, though correct in his critiques, was hampered by having been earlier in his career a keen advocate of technology and a member of four Labour governments that embraced nuclear power. Not that it was all paranoia. Anyone growing up in the 50s and 60s would also remember the ‘atoms for peace’ […]
[PDF file]: […] critical of senior political and legal figures in Scotland while paying tribute to those north and south of the border who offered strong practical support, including veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell and emeritus law professor Robert Black of Edinburgh University. The Lockerbie Bombing lacks an index but is well footnoted in support of a […]
[PDF file]: […] Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, […]
[PDF file]: […] LangdonO’Donnell, a Sinn Fein TD for Donegal in the 1920s, later published Salud! An Irishman in Spain (1937). 2 2 Davies, a News Chronicle correspondent and former Labour parliamentary candidate, and Geoffrey Brereton, later the author of Inside Spain (1938). The clue to Companys’ martyrdom at the hands of Chilton, King and Hankey was […]
[PDF file]: […] . 17 Powers (see note 7) p. 189. The ‘four’ to which Powers refers to here are his possible suspects in JFK’s assassination: ‘organised crime and crooked labour unions’, ‘Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro’ and ‘Castro himself’. 18 19 whom were intelligence assets of some kind, and that Oswald himself was some kind of […]
[PDF file]: […] pursued two consistent foreign policy principles since the French Revolution. The first is to control the seas and the access to cheap (or free) raw materials (including labour) throughout the world. The second has been to keep Europe divided against itself both to assure access to its markets and to weaken potential imperial competitors. […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] taken seriously. This investigative breakthrough led to a short-term career working on Channel 4 news items and an unsuccessful attempt to influence the left wing of the Labour Party. However, since 1988 Ramsay’s been back in Hull, publishing Lobster as a one-man band, writing books and nipping at the heels of the high and […]
[PDF file]: […] Steele emphasises the Putin regime’s commitment to supporting authoritarianism and encouraging division throughout the West. As for his own political trajectory, he had supported Blair and New Labour, voting for them in 1997 and 2001, but was opposed to the Iraq War. Indeed, the invasion was one of the factors that pushed ‘me away […]
[PDF file]: […] book on the work of the 9/11 Commission. Another one, impressive in another way, is Paul Thompson. His 9/11 History Commons timeline is the product of enormous labour 6 and his four-part interview appropriately wraps up the Gold compilation. In offering us chapter-by-chapter research links for those wishing to dig deeper, Gold encourages others […]
[PDF file]: […] were normally made available for inspection in the PRO, now called the National Archives, after 50 years. This was reduced in 1967 to 30 years by the Labour government after a successful campaign by historians and others. Subsequently the Dacre Review recommended that the 30 year rule should be replaced by 15 years. The […]
