BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
It is impossible to make an omlette without breaking eggs. — James Anderton on anti-terrorism My anger in this case stemmed from the denial that things had gone wrong, that no eggs were broken even though the omlette was there to see. — John Stalker David Murphy, The Stalker Affair and the Press, Unwin Hyman, … Read more
[…] of some of the clashes and policy disputes which historians of the period will find useful; and there is the striking comment: ‘Margaret Thatcher never believed in liberal economics – it is a complete misreading of her beliefs to depict her as a nineteenth-century liberal….. emotionally she was an authoritarian and protectionist.’ (p. 183) […]
[…] points the finger at either Captain Hall (Naval Intelligence…. yet another nautical connection) or one G. H. Mair, a leader writer for the Manchester Guardian, the great Liberal newspaper. Casement’s appeal was heard – and dismissed – by the same judge who dealt with the Pemberton-Billing/Allen trial, Mr Justice Darling, an ex-Conservative MP. Other […]
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more
[…] on the sinking of the Belgrano is a mistake. With all due respect to the dead, there are more serious issues at stake. RR Oil… The received liberal version of the Falklands War now seems to be something like this. By a combination of cockups (the information on the threat of an Argentine invasion […]
[…] and my part in the operation being particularly easy in that it consisted of saying “No” at frequent intervals’. This was in 1970.(12) Mark was certainly no liberal. His rejection of Deane-Drummond’s prescriptions derived from the belief that they would exacerbate conflict situations whereas the role of the police involved ‘the containment or absorption […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
