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From: Gary Dale (gd@ee.ed.ac.uk)

Subject: 'Hard Labour' Conference (fwd)

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Date: 1997/05/04

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LM CONFERENCE

Hard Labour ... but The Point Is To Change It

A look at what's in store under a New Labour government

        Opening plenary

                Dr Frank Furedi, University of Kent

        New Labour: New Authoritarianism

                Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, Columnist, LM Magazine

                Decca Aitkenhead, Columnist, the Guardian

                Peter Hitchens, Columnist, the Express

        Free Speech Under Threat

                John Wadham, Director, Liberty

                Geoffrey Bindman, Solicitor

                Donu Kogbara, Writer/journalist

                Jennie Bristow, contributor, LM magazine

        Closing plenary

                Mick Hume, Editor, LM magazine

                Helene Guldberg, Publisher, LM magazine

Saturday 10 May in the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre at City University ,

St John Street, London EC1

Registration starts at 10am

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There will be creche facilities available, but please book early.

The organisers may be able to arrange accommodation in London , but again

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=46or booking forms and further information contact Amanda Macintosh at

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There will be a Party in the evening to celebrate the publication of LM's

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<lm@informinc.co.uk> with 'LM is 100' in the subject line.

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From: kle1@cableol.co.uk (kle1@cableol.co.uk)

Subject: Re: 'Hard Labour' Conference (fwd)

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Date: 1997/05/04

Nasty, nasty, bunch of sectarians, who beat other leftists up.

Yuk

To which Peter Rushton responded:

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From: Peter Rushton (peter@glaucon.demon.co.uk)

Subject: Re: 'Hard Labour' Conference (fwd)

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kle1@cableol.co.uk (kle1@cableol.co.uk) wrote:

>Nasty, nasty, bunch of sectarians, who beat other leftists up.

I find the beating up part hard to believe, and the ones I knew years

ago weren't nasty.  Sectarian certainly, but they aren't the only

ones.

If you're referring specifically to those named in the original post

as conference speakers, several of them aren't even leftists  - by any

definition.  Peter Hitchens is a very right-wing journalist who lurked

in Tony Blair's press conferences with a mission to embarrass, while

Donu Kogbara has written for the Libertarian Alliance.

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Peter Rushton