[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] When I became interested in the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the late 1970s, it was believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were allpowerful and unaccountable. They are still unaccountable in any real sense (their accountability to Parliament is notional) but […]
[PDF file]: […] the safety culture on sites. Building work is intrinsically dangerous; many are killed and injured. Improving safety regimes means working more carefully and slowly, and this increases labour costs. The picture that emerges of the construction industry in the UK in recent years is that of ruthless companies, for whom injuries to and deaths […]
[PDF file]: […] and was one of the causes of the inflation of the 1970s (which reached 25% in 1975). That inflation became a stick with which the Tories beat Labour and unions in the 1974-79 period and beyond, 98 Winter 2010 and a section of the Tory right beat the Heathites. Mrs Thatcher and her faction […]
[PDF file]: […] that they knew each other; but it is said that they were ‘old friends’. In 1997, Barak had arrived in London as the leader of Israel’s beleaguered Labour Party, seeking help to win the 1999 election. With the aid of Blair’s experts in Millbank, he won and remained prime minister for two years. After […]
[PDF file]: […] in Europe about which I know little and would have difficulty checking. In this situation the reviewer heads for familiar territory and Cottrell has included the anti- Labour events of the 1960s and 70s which I know pretty well; and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section […]
[PDF file]: […] to a balance of political forces in the USA. This was characterised by the hegemony of Keynesian economics and by the existence of a strong, well organised labour movement committed to backing the New Deal and its successor programmes – Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society. This historic moment ended […]
[PDF file]: […] result the laws of war codified the practices of class (and race) distinctions too. In a POW camp it is generally prohibited to assign officers to manual labour. Within the scope of the camp’s resources, officers are to be accorded the courtesies and privileges due to their rank even in captivity. US soldiers remain […]
[PDF file]: […] felt obliged to permanently distance himself from News International, Johnson very deliberately decided to publicly associate himself with Murdoch, dismissing the ‘Hacking scandal’ as ‘codswallop’ and a Labour stunt. He very publicly invited Murdoch to be his guest at the Olympics. Without much doubt his thinking is that Murdoch will ride out the ‘Hacking […]
[PDF file]: […] parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski […]
