[…] account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s s tory can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + Nigeria’. The comments in the online condolence book for Smith at show that Harold was held in high […]
[…] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]
[PDF file]: […] account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s s tory can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + Nigeria’. The comments in the online condolence book for Smith1 show that Harold was held in high regard […]
[PDF file]: […] heart of anti-socialist campaigns, caucuses and clandestine operations in British trade unions since the war. This essay is about those operations. (That Tribune thought the Jordan s tory worthy of just one line on page 3 shows how little this area is understood in Britain – even on the left.) Debts I am grateful […]
[…] that I 13 14 See for example . 15 Chinese dumping is discussed here: . wonder if there isn’t another explanation, such as the Chinese bribing the Tory Party. Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail was honest enough to recognise some of what is happening in his column on 1 April, ‘We’ve sold our […]
[PDF file]: […] Britain to embark on its own independent journey to socialism? A full assessment of the possibilities of Lexit needs to start with a little bit of his tory, taking us back to the late 1950s. Then, as now, the British Left was composed of a wide range of organisations, traditions and opinions. A significant […]
[PDF file]: The Oyston Files Andrew Rosthorn Darwen, Lancashire: Red Sea Books, 2021, £16.99, h/b Nick Must At a macro level, this is a fairly simple s tory: Owen Oyston, a multi-millionaire supporter of the Labour Party,1 was subject to a politically motivated smear campaign that lasted nearly two decades. Andrew Rosthorn identifies the three main […]
[PDF file]: […] the crash of 2008 – these are have been discussed in dozens of books. Instead I want to set out the older and specifically British back s tory, both economic and political. The crash of 2008 did not appear out of the blue. Yes, some of the key factors, notably the use of computers […]
[…] hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) His tory tells us that Crozier and the cold warriors were wrong: since the demise of the Soviet Union no evidence has come to light supporting their view […]
[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic his tory Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches […]
