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On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

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[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is mostly […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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[PDF file]: […] social issues designed to divide (race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* He’s not the Messiah. . . he’s a very naughty boy! You’ll have to forgive my twice using a Monty Python reference within this one issue’s ‘South of the Border’, but it’s the only sensible reaction to some recent communication1 from ‘God’s own spy’, David […]

Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967, edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley

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[PDF file]: That was the world that was Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967  edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley  Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017, £24.99 (p/b)  ISBN-13: 978-1138675179   Scott Anthony   Although the book begins in 1967, Tomorrow Belongs to Us is primarily the story of the post-1968 generation’s […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] 10 leaders this century with five others taking the acting position. 6 7 3 Campbell has earned a good living as a professional anti-Tory. Along with Donald Trump, it is Conservatives who are largely his target in this book as he seeks to inspire his readers to move on from ‘tweeting, blaming and bemoaning […]

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[…] wealthy.10 And as it gets bigger, the cost of the borrowing rises. 9/11 Another pointed piece on the subject from Russ Baker.11 He writes that while President Trump was hobnobbing with the Saudis: Two men — directly connected to the 9/11 terrorists and the Saudi royal family — are living apparently normal lives under […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

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[PDF file]: […] ‘unbreakable’, and that ‘there is no power on earth that can drive us apart’. Powerful stuff, one of the great ‘I am not Spartacus’ speeches. Would the Trump phenomenon have threatened to ‘drive us apart’ if Brown were still in power? The likelihood is that a Brown government would be doing its best to […]

Friends of Israel

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[PDF file]: […] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic strategy, […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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[PDF file]: […] US telephone calls and briefings and, rallying behind whoever is flavour of the month in respectable politics, would have found a way to drop the matter. But Trump is President, not Clinton. This hasn’t and won’t happen and – carrying on the football terminology – we are now resigning (or being expelled) from the […]