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Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Thatcherism’ – championing big business, deregulating the financial sector, continuing privatisations and effectively handing the state over to business consultants. After 2008, Brown prepared the way for Tory Austerity and the creation of contemporary Food Bank Britain, afloat in a sea of raw sewage courtesy of the privatised water companies and their shareholders. For […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

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[…] is now hoping for a big majority through which to assert some control, not to pursue some hard Brexit, but to bury the referendum and return the Tory Party in government to close alignment with the City of London and big business. That centres upon something she has been trailing for some weeks, to […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] (London: Verso, 2010); Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 and Scott Newton The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic His tory (London: Routledge, 2017); Barnett’s introduction to the 2021 edition of Nairn’s Break-Up of Britain and P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism 1688-2015, 3rd […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] discussion of the CPGB-Moscow relationship, but which does not cover the ‘Moscow gold’, see ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain and Moscow’, Stephen Hopkins, in Labour His tory History Review, Vol 57, No. 3, Winter 1992. 1 For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 November […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] just write stupid shit. Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘JFK: a death that sparked a thousand conspiracies’1 is a classic example. Sandbrook is a popular writer of recent British his tory but he knows nothing at all about the Kennedy assassination. And there’s the point: he doesn’t think he needs to know anything before rehashing the lone […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

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[PDF file]: […] with ‘***’. Sneaky, very sneaky. I have already mentioned the factual errors within the report but I should also point out that it appears to be contradic tory. Paragraph 2 has this on the Russian state: ‘By contrast, it has a small population compared with the West; a lack of both reliable partners and […]

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[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]

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The Two Goulds

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[PDF file]: […] a major British political party suggested opposing the City of London. My treatment in issue 62 was a sketch. Here is some more detail. The back s tory Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 […]