[PDF file]: […] neo-liberalism was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to […]
[…] Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a 4 David Brock, Blinded by the Right ( New York: Three Rivers Press , 2002) Who got his grounding in Republican political warfare while writing his book The Rise of the Counter Establishment (New York: […]
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[…] Our Way, which said the same sorts of things, was at least partly written by Eatwell.5 Bryan Gould B ryan Gould MP also shared these views. A New Zealander, Gould had been a Rhodes Scholar, an Oxford don, a TV journalist and a diplomat.6 This was an exotic combination in the Labour Party of […]
[PDF file]: […] look. Sullivan was evidently so pleased with what he had created that he planned to circulate it to a pretty exclusive circle of the powerful. 1 2 New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018. 3 You might be wondering about Sullivan’s private attitudes toward Dr King. Later, in 1964, W C Sullivan was one those […]
[PDF file]: […] May 2018. It is available on-line (to subscribers only) at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must * new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We […]
[PDF file]: […] system a ‘cuntocracy’? This is not, as it might seem, just a reaction to the advent of someone as painfully fraudulent as Nick Clegg. We need a new name for not just what the political class do to us because of greed and stupidity; we need a term that advances the idea of social […]
[PDF file]: […] networks. I will not try to detail the circumstances in which these networks eventually came to light. An excellent primer for those to whom this is a new topic would be the books and articles by Professor Daniele Ganser.3 1 2 I express the term as ‘Gladio’ (i.e. within quotation marks) because there were […]
[PDF file]: […] deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed twelve months of dangerous and duplicitous secret wartime diplomacy. The new angle from Harris and Wilbourn1 concerns a risky transatlantic flight by the prime minister of the Polish government in exile. General Władysław Sikorski was also the […]
