Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. 6

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

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[PDF file]: […] mainstream British politics, has declined to insignificance. But in America there has been a populist revival of the Alt-Right, described as ‘the Klan with keyboards’ around Donald Trump. And in eastern Europe there are a number of extreme Right-wing, anti-Semitic parties (like Fidesz and more extreme groups in Hungary) that have declared that their […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] Mail on Sunday outside Harry’s Bar. He says Blair is pitching to Jared Kushner to offer advice on the Middle East, and (bizarre and not true) that Trump demanded the dismissal of Robert Hannigan from GCHQ, blaming him for trying to stitch him up over Russia.’ November 6 2017: ‘Priti Horrendous is in a […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

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[PDF file]: […] the ones where they didn’t win.15 Perhaps the marketing industry’s ambition to algorithmise politics is meeting its match – not just in the shape of Corbyn, but Trump too. In Corbyn’s case he can look to a huge army of Momentum members who are both social media savvy and also willing to revive the […]

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[…] as was).24 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with antivaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] government is wholly incompetent. We can be confident that once his electoral usefulness has come to an end, Johnson will be dispensed with. This is what happened to Tommy the Red! John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks.

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[…] as was).21 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with antivaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] would have buckled in quite the same way that Callaghan did to bureaucratic and media pressure. He also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior […]

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