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Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered
Shameless!
[PDF file]: […] ‘Realising they couldn’t win without fraud, Dobson’s supporters – without his knowledge – encouraged MPs to call on party members to collect their ballot papers. Members could vote by phone or post. When MPs or their staff turned up on the doorstep helpfully offering to collect ballots, members innocently handed them over. The MP […]
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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex […]
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
[PDF file]: […] coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum, pursuing that against Corbyn’s wishes in the run-up to the 2019 election.11 The author writes: Of course, in the final months […]
Holding Pattern
[PDF file]: […] also explain why David Cameron’s campaigning for ‘Remain’ was so low-key and understated, giving Johnson centre stage to perform his upper-crust electoral slapstick and discourage the ‘Leave’ vote. This idea, however, founders on the rock-solid fact that Messrs Cameron and Johnson couldn’t run a sausage-shop between them and, obviously, MI6 would never be so […]
The Two Goulds
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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that the Irish journalist, Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast […]
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
[PDF file]: […] of just over 33% of votes cast, with ‘fringe’ parties and independents making headway. Get In tells how victory was achieved by maximising the efficiency of the vote, delivering it where it was needed rather than piling it up where it would make no difference. Social media played its part, micro-targeting individual voters rather […]