But the rumbling goes on, in the ranks of the unions, in the constituencies, on the backbenches. It’s there for anyone with ears to hear, even though for most dissidents party spirit still entails public silence.Criticism of party style has become personified in the figure of Peter Mandelson, the shadow minister for the civil service, aka spin-doctor in chief, and useful target for most dissident contumely It is not usually honest criticism. He is right in saying that there is widespread resentment in the Labour movement about the style of Tony Blair’s leadership. It is a cowardly kind of resentment, admittedly, that gets more vocal when Labour is 21 points ahead in the polls.

It would be a lot harder for newspaper and magazine editors to get Labour MPs to pipe up if the Tories’ wish-fulfilling claims about the return to them of Middle England were true. But a party preparing itself for power, as Labour is, should be able to distinguish a one-off rant from a sustained internal party complaint.
Let us give Mr Mitchell the credit of his original contribution, rather than his embarrassed glosses. Mephistopheles et al are left looking even shiftier than usual. So yesterday Labour deserved every drop of delighted schadenfreude that dropped from Michael Heseltine’s lips as he slavered over this latest bout of indiscipline Mark that word No party could or should attempt to silence its oddballs. Whether right or wrong, there is genuine dismay among many Labour MPs and activists at the direction the party is taking: paradoxically, the tactics of pretending it does not matter only serve to amplify the fact that it does. On Mr Blair’s behalf (witness Robin Cook yesterday) they chorus: he is a maverick, the kind of MP who used to complain about Clement Attlee and would still be complaining if the Blessed Keir Hardie returned to lead the party

This won’t do at this point in the electoral calendar.

Thus Mr Mitchell yesterday took to justifying his analogy between Tony Blair and the late Kim Il Sung as a votive to Labour leadership Such nonsense is a godsend to the spin-doctorate. The slap of the ruler on outstretched palm stings the dissident into back-tracking, usually on the airwaves, making everyone look silly in the process. It’s becoming a pattern Paul Flynn, Clare Short, now Austen Mitchell Labour dissidents lash out All hell breaks loose. First Peter Mephistopheles Campbell berates them mercilessly in private for rocking the boat, then he or his anointed representative takes to Newsnight to label them as cranks and lone wolves.

in terms of television’s tiny evolutionary steps, he is indeed important: a black strong and capable of making decisions.”Greg Morris, actor: born Cleveland, Ohio 27 September 1934; died Las Vegas, Nevada 27 August 1996.. So Morris and Nichols became isolated characters without any “real” cultural context or African-American identity. But, as Donald Bogle has said of Barney Collier in Mission: Impossible: “It’s hard not to like or respect the character. He also had a supporting role in the ABC series Vega$ (1979-81) but his career was interrupted by a serious car accident in 1981.He did not appear on television again until a short-lived revival of Mission: Impossible, which also featured his son Phil, in 1989.Looking at Greg Morris and Nichelle Nichols in re-runs of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek on British television, it seems they are the Invisible Man and Woman of television Neither series makes an issue of their colour It seems CBS and NBC wanted to avoid race altogether. This appearance was in sharp contrast to the mild-mannered character he later played in Mission: Impossible.After Mission: Impossible ended in 1973, Morris worked regularly in American television, playing guest roles in such major dramatic programmes as Streets of San Francisco, Quincy, Roots: The Next Generations and The Jesse Owens Story. This series is currently enjoying a rerun on Channel 4 every Sunday morning.
Greg Morris’s regular appearances as a member of the team of CIA-like agents in Mission: Impossible made a huge impact, and helped to break new ground. Between 1969 and 1972 he was nominated for three Emmy awards as Best Supporting Actor.The African-American film and television historian Donald Bogle has described Collier as “one of the first serious black characters to appear regularly on a series.

Intelligent, reserved, shrewd, and almost resplendently cool and mildly remote. Morris was also something of a heart-throb, although the scripts usually kept him confined to the non-romantic sidelines of the action.”Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Morris attended Ohio State University and the University of Iowa. Moving to Hollywood in the early 1960s, he made appearances on such top-rated American television drama series as Twilight Zone, Dr Kildare and The Fugitive before finding fame in Mission: Impossible.In a 1963 episode of the medical series Ben Casey, Morris gave a memorable performance as a black doctor whose virulent anti-white racism leads to a showdown with Sammy Davis Jr, the star of the drama. In the early years of American television, black people were invariably stereotyped in comedy series like Amos’n'Andy. A change occurred in 1965 with the launch of NBC’s I Spy, the first drama series to star a white actor (Robert Culp) opposite a black one (Bill Cosby). Thirty years on it is hard to imagine the controversy this casting provoked.