George Binette

Jun 23, 2024 | islingtontribune.co.uk | George Binette |Andy Beckett |Allen Lane

Clockwise from top: Diane Abbott [Chris McAndrew], Tony Benn [Isujosh], Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell [Roger Harris] and Jeremy Corbyn“IN Britain, as elsewhere, the left has had few electoral successes and many failures.

Jun 23, 2024 | camdennewjournal.co.uk | George Binette

Clockwise from top: Diane Abbott [Chris McAndrew], Tony Benn [Isujosh], Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell [Roger Harris] and Jeremy Corbyn“IN Britain, as elsewhere, the left has had few electoral successes and many failures.

Mar 21, 2024 | camdennewjournal.co.uk | George Binette

John Wardle AKA Jah Wobble, author of Dark LuminosityTHERE is no dearth of memoirs from former pop stars and musicians who once featured in the charts. Books generated by such careers make for a publishing sub-genre with many volumes clearly ghost-written and a fair few nothing more than literary dross fit for rapid recycling. Dark Luminosity provides a shining exception.

Feb 1, 2024 | camdennewjournal.co.uk | George Binette

Ramsay MacDonald and Clement AttleeUNUSUALLY for a book by a soon-to-retire MP that isn’t full of salacious Westminster gossip, Jon Cruddas’s A Century of Labour garnered newspaper headlines (well, at least in The Observer) prior to its official launch. Cruddas, perhaps emboldened by his imminent departure from Parliament, had issued a far-from-flattering assessment of Labour’s direction of travel under Keir Starmer’s leadership.

Feb 1, 2024 | islingtontribune.co.uk | George Binette |Jon Cruddas

Ramsay MacDonald and Clement AttleeUNUSUALLY for a book by a soon-to-retire MP that isn’t full of salacious Westminster gossip, Jon Cruddas’s A Century of Labour garnered newspaper headlines (well, at least in The Observer) prior to its official launch. Cruddas, perhaps emboldened by his imminent departure from Parliament, had issued a far-from-flattering assessment of Labour’s direction of travel under Keir Starmer’s leadership.