[…] non-UK readers not aware of the nuances of the British media-politician relationship, was probably done to defend Ashdown from criticism (presumably from the radical wing of the Liberal Party; nobody else would care), not to conceal the Bilderbergers. Sean Mac Mathuna sent me pp. 4285-90 of the House of Representatives Proceedings, the Congressional Record, […]
As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters – something like 100,000 words – there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What … Read more
[…] mumbling about the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. The media’s chosen standard bearer last time was the extraterrestrial Texas magnate Ross Perot (the media, liberal and conservative, regularly ignore the sizeable Libertarian Party and the efforts of Jesse Jackson while fixating on weird eccentrics). This time as a ‘third party’ possibility […]
[…] us to consider the deeper aspects of human nature). Professional historians may take exception to the challenge to their role and field of expertise. Critics of neo- liberal capitalism and the Corporatocracy in general may find the skeleton model of American corporatism described unsatisfactory and underdeveloped. Marxists may protest the lack of demonstrated understanding […]
[…] centrist ‘Keep Calm’ group in the Labour Party, Stewart went to the United States in the summer of 1954. (13) He most approximated the ideology of the liberal American Democrats, being to the left on social policies but an anti-communist cold-warrior on defence and foreign policy. This was the ideal of the liberal wing […]
Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 edited by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1996 £29.50 As the title suggests this really contains two separate though not unrelated areas. The first is a series of shortish essays about so-called think tanks in the UK which follow on from […]
[…] Arbetaren (The Worker), and extensive reading of both the émigré and internal publications that stand outside both the official media of the state of Iran and the liberal democratic consensus of the western democracies. The first part of the book is a look at Iran from the inside. It gives a full account of […]
[…] probably still has) connections with British intelligence. Intermittently funny in an unintentional way, Good Times Bad Times is a revealing portrait of the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal end of the British ruling class. RR Contact A.F.N.Clarke (Pan, London 1984) Direct, earthy account by ex-Parachute Regiment Captain of his experiences in Northern Ireland from […]
[…] down Shylock with guile and subtlety in The Merchant of Venice, Barney Greenwald reducing Commander Queeg to a gibbering mess in The Caine Mutiny and the gentle liberal Henry Fonda destroying Lee J Cobb to get his “not-guilty” vote in 12 Angry Men.’ I doubt if the publicity machine behind Frost/Nixon could have put […]
[…] the tradition of Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky; and there are still Rightists who take Schmitt and de Benoist as a starting point but draw conclusions so il liberal that any self-respecting libertarian democratic Rightist should be scared. Part of the problem is that politics is very much a minority interest (quite reasonably) and that […]
