[PDF file]: […] TV long before becoming an MP in 1964. Had she really ‘failed to appreciate the media interest in the latest phase’ of the setting up of a new party that would for two general elections split opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives? Evacuated by her parents to the United States in the Second World War, […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] same time extending the scope and intensity of bureaucracy. After a circuitous tour he leaves us with the basis for a theory of bureaucracy. (I never k new I needed one before.) But whenever you hear that the market is superior to bureaucracy, and bureaucrats are held up to ridicule, you will be able […]
[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]: 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 […]
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[PDF file]: […] Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with ‘….entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, the Swedish premier Olof Palme and his star pupil Anna Lindh, and the real motives […]
[PDF file]: […] a feature of not only the G20 meeting. It has characterised the responses of many individual governments around the world, and has certainly reared its head in New Zealand. Contrary to the expectations of many of us that the global financial crisis would be seen as a conclusive judgement on the failures of neo-liberal […]
