[…] fix that sustains us in our daily desire for a better world. Since 1975, Peter Preston has been the principal gatekeeper at The Guardian, the paper of liberal conscience launched in Manchester in 1821 as the voice of reforming non-conformity. For 20 years he was editor and then became columnist and eminence grise when […]
[…] Milne, apparently, was told off for supporting the Labour candidate in Lincoln against Taverne. 5 Wrigglesworth remains active in the North East. He was President of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Chair of the Northern Region CBI in 1992 and currently Chairs UK Land Estates and the Newcastle-Gateshead Initiative. 6 It might be more […]
[…] Spanish police for their role in six terrorist murders designed to prevent the forthcoming Spanish general election. Noting the persistent stories in the Spanish press (particularly the liberal El Pais) “of the so-called Fascist International”, the New York Times reported the arrest of the Argentine fascist Jorge Cesarsky, linked to both the Fuerza Nueva […]
[…] gas businessmen like the Brown brothers, the FPC was keeping prices, particularly of gas, artificially low and the main culprit was Olds, who was portrayed as a liberal. ‘There is nothing more important to the welfare of the natural gas industry in Texas than that Olds be defeated’, Charles I. Francis, a Brown and […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA’s Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA’s counter-intelligence … Read more
[…] – once more Threadneedle Street was giving priority to international ‘obligations’ over commitments to build a fairer society at home. I reckon the Bank reverted to its liberal outlook of pre-war days in the late 40s – because by this time, given the 1949 sterling crisis and devaluation, currency liberalisation was seen as the […]
[…] often metropolitan, predominantly Muslim, usually highly educated civilian elites of the Middle East, who form the area’s key minority; and b) another important minority, the world-wide, often liberal, Arab diaspora including some Arab Christians and Arab Jews. Instead, it targeted a third minority clerics/tribal leaders who, for the most part, have the […]
[…] guesses or lies. Kelly Reading The Strange Death of David Kelly needs precisely the tools of discernment we developed for After Dark all those years ago. The Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker, has written a book of real interest to Lobster readers. Baker’s work on the death of David Kelly in Oxfordshire […]
[…] that is certainly how many in the US intelligence establishment viewed the strategy of providing aid and comfort to anti-communist forces even if they did not possess liberal democratic credentials. Yet there may have been more to it for Angleton. From adolescence he had demonstrated an interest in ‘third way’ regimes and philosophies which […]
[…] Secret State. While Stafford’s general thesis is unconvincing, the book does throw some interesting light in murky corners. Even when he was still a minister in the Liberal Government before the outbreak of the First World War, it was Churchill, we are assured, who, as Home Secretary, first authorised the clandestine interception of mail […]
