[…] civil suit against prominent Saudis. In all these cases, the concern was ultimately with the conduct of all banks in acting as flags of convenience for il liberal interests. By punishing one, the ‘system’ warned many others that the world had changed. The details of the issues are not important although all three were […]
[…] vote in Addison ward, where Labour lost 2 seats to the Conservatives. Because of this the council became hung with the balance of power held by 2 Liberal councillors. After a week’s deliberations locally and with their national HQ (and substantial press coverage in The Evening Standard and The Guardian) the Liberals voted to […]
[…] cemented by Lend-Lease, in the fight against Germany and Japan and work together in the creation of a new world order where the success of a reformed, liberal but social capitalism would be guaranteed. The synthesis of New Deal pragmatism, Keynes and Smith would bring lasting peace and prosperity to all under a continuing […]
[…] tolerance with the Nazi devil and determined not to make the same mistake with communism, especially at a time when liberation theology was taking hold of its liberal wing. Pope Benedict is clearly his own man but there is now good reason to take a much greater interest in the close liaison between the […]
[…] Clays Lovering Pochin and Co; a director of National Provincial Bank, the London Assurance, Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries and of the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co Ltd. Ex Liberal politician. Club: Brooks. Met Goering August 1939. Mentioned supporting negotiated peace March and July 1940. (See FO, PREM, Stokes). Aga Khan Rt Hon. Aga Sultan Sir […]
[…] should be concerned solely with failures to follow the rules (hypocrisy) or with anomalies and injustices for which new rules should be created. Investigators are almost painfully liberal. The forms of constitutionalism are important to them and this quaint belief in the system working properly, rather like the belief of peasants that the Little […]
[…] a senior colleague of Mandelson’s close friend, Sir John Birt, in her job as deputy managing director of the Foreign Office-funded BBC World Service. Liddle’s brother-in-law is Liberal Democrat peer Lord Newby of Rothwell, now a director of the public affairs company, Matrix Communications. Newby left the Civil Service to help form the SDP […]
[…] and 2003. As we go into 2008, it is stuck there as part of a violent cultural struggle in which its allies are, in some cases, less liberal than some of its critics. The UK has been trapped into a commitment to a far-away country that will be expensive and possibly futile in the […]
[…] was, of course, a Financial Times intelligentsia connection as well represented by both Martin Taylor and Ian Hargreaves who might be regarded, at the time, as ‘social liberal action intellectuals’, drawn towards Europe and liberal globalisation, much like the newspaper. Of course, none of these necessarily bought into the Marxist analysis but there was […]
[…] and tools. The European project requires a ‘Frenchification’ of our security culture by people who are instinctive Republicans. It is not that New Labour wants an il liberal regime per se. New Labour is not fascist – unless we think European republicanism is inherently fascist – it is merely indifferent to liberal individualism. In […]
