STANLEY MAYNE A Socialist Caucus pamphlet put out in June 1984, Cold War and Class Collaboration: Red Baiting and Witch-Hunts in the Civil Service Unions suggested that ‘A rather mysterious affair occurred in the IPCS (Institute of Professional Civil Servants). Its General Secretary, Richard Nunn, who had in April 1962 correctly realised that the Radcliffe … Read more
From Colin Johnson Re: review of Neck Deep in Lobster 54. I think your reviewer missed the main point. The book intended to demonstrate, perhaps over verbally because much of the material comes from articles previously published on Consortiumnews.com mail out, that over the period of George ‘Woodentop’ Bush’s presidency the republic of America was … Read more
Of the many questions left unanswered from this summer’s so-called Lobbygate furore, one stands out: why did Prime Minister Tony Blair expend so much energy and political capital saving Roger Liddle, the Downing Street adviser who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be an … Read more
[PDF file]: Brexit: an accident waiting to happen Simon Matthews In the current British political crisis, caused by the Brexit vote, four factors, often ignored, are crucial: * electoral legitimacy (and the lack thereof of most Westminster governments since 1970); * the corrosive consequences of an unregulated media; * the increasingly poor educational standards prevalent in […]
[PDF file]: […] Social Democratic Alliance, a group within the Labour Party from 1975. Outside the Labour Party from 1980 they ran candidates in the 1981 GLC elections, splitting the vote and ensuring that Ted Knight was defeated as Labour candidate in Norwood. Had he been elected, it had been agreed that Knight would become Chair of […]
[PDF file]: […] – at all levels.2 This is odd. Any reading of the 2005 result ought to have signalled problems: Labour had won a majority with a seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and […]
[PDF file]: […] have to be treated with caution. They might well be exaggerated and it is not clear how successful they were. For all this anti-Labour propaganda, Labour’s total vote went up in the 1951 General Election. The Information Research Department In the labour movement the Trades Union Congress was working with the newly-formed, Foreign Office-based, […]
[PDF file]: […] and the White Nationalist Agenda Jean Guerrero New York: William Morrow, 2020, $28.99, h/b John Newsinger In the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump received the second highest vote in the history of US presidential elections. Incredibly, more than 74 million Americans voted for a crooked, lying, bullying, incompetent, misogynist, racist and authoritarian con-man. He […]
[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
