James Vaughan
@EquusontheBuses
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda @InterpolAber. Captain at Clwb Criced Aberystwyth. Blues harmonica. Idolises Walter Horton.
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06-08-2010 17:42:49
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#OnThisDay 1943: JTA bulletin report on resolutions put forward for that year's The Labour Party annual party conference.
Lessons drawn from Chaim Bermant are rarely unsound... Thoughtful stuff from Josh Glancy on some of the political legacies of the Corbyn wars... jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-wr…
#OnThisDay 1940: 'Cassandra' in the Daily Mirror, on the 'ex-Tory, ex-Independent, ex-Labour... Fascist baronet', Sir Oswald Mosley...
#OnThisDay 1987: the desecration of the same Holocaust memorial. The antisemitic vandals left a calling card name-checking Jim Allen and Ken Loach’s play, Perdition.
#OnThisDAy 1957: Aneurin Bevan in Israel with a characteristically mixed bag of advice and observations (he was, at that time, Shadow Foreign Secretary)