2. Freedom and the Security Services – a Labour Party Discussion Document (£1.50 plus postage from The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long […]
[…] post-war Head of Military Intelligence War Office, Overlord in Malaya, and had headed a similar, but secret inquiry initiated by Attlee. The Right Hon. Kenneth Younger. Former Labour M.P. for Grimsby, the constituency ‘handed on’ to Tony Crosland. His cousin William Younger worked for Maxwell Knight as did ‘Bill’s’ mother Joan (Mrs Dennis Wheatley) […]
[…] Big Swing to BAP’. This began: ‘No less than four British-American Project Fellows and one Advisory Board Member have been appointed to ministerial posts in the new Labour government.’ New names on the BAP roster include Geoff (from Militant via Red Wedge to the PM’s Office) Mulgan, Julia (not now, daddy, I’m busy) Hobsbawm, […]
[…] careers and pensions – the really important things, after all – stayed on track. The British security and intelligence services had long since stopped worrying about the Labour Party. The Left in the Parliamentary Labour Party had lost interest in the subject, and though Neil Kinnock had shown a flicker of interest in the […]
The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New […]
Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and […]
[…] sustain its hegemony. This is actually more evident in Britain than the US and, indeed, much of Marshall’s book concerns itself with the British situation. Here, New Labour has completely replaced the Tories as the main party of British capitalism by hijacking the historical Labour Party in violation of its own constitution. But while […]
[…] Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual ridicule and abuse of the […]
[PDF file]: […] of the door, the author of Broken Heartlands finds little to comfort those hoping to see Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street any time soon. While the Labour leader may want to flush his efforts to block Brexit down the memory hole along with his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, he has far to go in […]
[PDF file]: […] it by two events. The first was the death of its author earlier this year; the second has been the recurrence of the ‘doom’ narrative of the Labour Party. This fatalistic style of thinking has reappeared following Labour’s fairly dismal election results in May 2021, and its previous drubbing in the 2019 general election. […]
