[…] elections. (For all their chatter about ‘mould breaking’ and the centre ground, the effect of the SDP was utterly divisive and destructive.) The splitting of the anti-Tory vote on these two occasions was so significant that no political party, under even brilliant leadership, could have gone from where Labour was in 1983 to forming […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
[…] movement of capital, the global role of the City and the international status of sterling as (then) the world’s leading reserve currency. They tended to be Anglican, vote Conservative, send their children to the public schools and Oxbridge and to live in the London suburbs and the Home Counties. By the second half of […]
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
[…] reading, is not stated. US one-world conspiracy theorists please note: BP, RIIA and Fabians, all at once! In 1979 Butler was co-author, with Neil Kinnock, of Why Vote Labour? ‘By the autumn of 1981 her economic policies made her the least approved-of Prime Minister since Dr Gallup invented opinion polls. The government did not […]
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
[…] a bomb into the U.K. and cause an apparent nuclear accident close to a U.S. air force base in East Anglia. This would ‘panic the 10% floating vote into unilateralism, and support at the polls the only party pledged to unilateralism, the Labour Party.’ (p.179) An analogous theme, of radioactive waste and the KGB, […]
Luke Harding, David Leigh and David Pallister Penguin, 1997, £6.99 George Orwell said that Robinson Crusoe was a good example of a bad book, clumsily written but of natural interest due to its subject. The same is true here. Heroic and triumphant in tone, the troika of authors concentrate mainly on the paraphernalia, research and … Read more
From Colin Johnson Re: review of Neck Deep in Lobster 54. I think your reviewer missed the main point. The book intended to demonstrate, perhaps over verbally because much of the material comes from articles previously published on Consortiumnews.com mail out, that over the period of George ‘Woodentop’ Bush’s presidency the republic of America was … Read more
