As a young student in Paris in the 1930s, Madeleine - the favourite granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus - jumped to her feet when her history teacher referred to her grandfather as "the Jewish officer Dreyfus". "No, Monsieur," she protested, "the French officer." It echoed the sentiments professed by her grandfather 40 years earlier. Madeleine was destined to pay the ultimate price of illusion and her sad fate to become a poignant epilogue to the "Immortal Affair"- the name given by her brother Jean-Louis Levy to the events and consequences of their grandfather's arrest and conviction in 1894. The subject has recently attracted a fresh spate of publications, most notably Piers Paul Read's new book, The Dreyfus Affair - splendidly written but flawed by a strong ... Continue reading →

History repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce” (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon)We had a rough idea of the outcome of the 3 May 2012 London Mayor election as soon as we knew we were running the same candidate as we ran in the May 2008 one.The message then from the electorate was clear. This time we asked them the same question. We should not be surprised that they gave the exact same answer.The tragedy for the London Labour Party is that we ran again with a candidate in the downward phase of their relationship with the London electorate, with deep and public flaws, at the same time as the nationwide relationship between Labour and the electorate ... Continue reading →

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