[PDF file]: […] 1976. Nevertheless, this reader certainly put the book down much better informed and, at the same time, seriously concerned that so much of what Miller reveals was new to him. It was during the Reagan-Thatcher years that the British so-called ‘private military companies’ first came into their own. Mercenaries had operated before then but, […]
[PDF file]: […] comes about. We can see this in his rather odd treatment of the evidence he cites as proof of the adverse impact mass 3 4 Glenn Greenwald, ‘New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self Censorship’, The Intercept, 29 April 2016 at . surveillance has on society. Referring to literature, he cites […]
[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]
[PDF file]: […] recurring themes of British politics in the last fifty years or so – particularly the post-Thatcher era. The report on the Lex Greensill affair by Nigel Boardman,3 notes on p.13: ‘. . . longstanding aspiration of successive governments to attract people from a wider range of professional backgrounds to the Civil Service. This ambition, […]
[PDF file]: […] from human disease and misery – Harry Lime knew a thing or two – but social dislocation in the form of disruptive and capital-destroying lockdowns! Unfortunately, the ‘new superior relations of production’ whose potential we have just glimpsed have not yet replaced the older ones because the ‘material conditions for their existence’ have not […]
[PDF file]: […] on the United Kingdom and the United States run to, respectively, around 30 pages and 90 pages, both of which contain a lot of information that is new to this writer. There are also lengthy sections on Canada, France, and Germany, and Ozorak (the name does sound like an acronym) has done a skilful […]
[PDF file]: […] most hereditary peerages, the House of Lords has continued to grow. With a membership of 810 it is now, absurdly, the largest unelected legislature in the world. New peers are created by the Monarch or via nominations from the leaders of the main parties in the House of Commons: a system without parallel elsewhere. […]
[PDF file]: […] a US government bacteriologist working on germ warfare projects who was probably pushed to his death out of a tenth floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York in 1953. Reviewing the book led me to do some desultory research on the UK’s forays in to mind control drugs, and while I won’t […]
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[PDF file]: […] E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London: Penguin Books, 1991), p. 881. 1 2 E. J. Hobsbawm and George Rudé, Captain Swing ( New York: Pantheon Books, 1968). 3 All the Year Round (London), xvii (1867), pp. 441-6. London: Richard Bentley, 1834 (with later revisions). Rookwood is chiefly remembered today, […]
