Kray twins Party, in power from October 1964, but with a wafer-thin majority in the House of Commons and the prospect of another General Election needing to be called in the very near future, did not want Driberg's connections to Ronnie Kray (and his sexual predilections) to get into the public realm. Ronnie Kray shot and killed George Cornell, a member of the Richardsons (a rival South London gang), at the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel on 9 March 1966. The day before, there had been a shoot-out at "Mr. Smith's", a nightclub in Catford, involving the Richardson gang and Richard Hart,
The Cornell Progressive (newspaper) controversy, and Cornell students launched a campaign to discredit the allegedly fraudulent March 2005 Student Assembly elections – both events influenced in large part by "TL" reporting and opinion. In the Spring of 2007, co-editors Shai Akabas '09 and Ethan Felder '09 launched a successful but controversial campaign to change the name of the publication to "The Cornell Progressive". The executive board voted 6-2 to amend the organization's constitution in March 2007. In 2005, "Turn Left" began to bill itself as "Cornell's premier political newspaper," signaling its editors' belief that it eclipsed the once monolithic "Cornell Review" in terms of