[PDF file]: Contents The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, £14.99 Tom Easton Lobster contributor Dan Hind has produced a mind-stretching plea to no longer leave politics to the experts – the practitioners and the gatekeepers who control access […]
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[PDF file]: […] of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. Gould went on to stand against John Smith for the leadership of the party in 1992 and lost heavily. New Labour – at its core the capitulation to the financial sector – could be said to have begun there. We still don’t know why the Gould […]
[PDF file]: […] the throne. Britain had full employment, an NHS with proportionally much lower prescription charges, a huge public transport network, a 100% government–funded housing programme that built 250,000 new homes per year (allocated as permanent tenancies and at a very low rent)1 and maintained much larger armed forces, together with a completely independent UK manufactured […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs Ian N. Richardson, Andrew P. Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse London: Routledge, 2011; 218 pages, notes, index; p/b, £20.99 T wenty-two years after Denis Healey wrote about Bilderberg in his memoir The Time of My Life, the English-speaking academic world has finally produced something on the […]
[PDF file]: Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b, (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would […]
[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 […]
