[…] Benn in his basement office that the Left (with which I retained some sympathy) could better win its battles on defence and foreign policy by associating with liberal middle class anxieties in this area, only to be patronised as only he can patronise. In the event, I was proved right. Social and political changes […]
[…] disclosure of information. ‘In Scotland the Crown is allowed to modify or withhold evidence if it considers that withholding is in the “public interest”.’(21) Baker on Kelly Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker’s book The Strange Death of David Kelly (London: Politico’s Publishing) received extensive press coverage prior to its publication in November. According to […]
Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have … Read more
[…] time and money on funding Britons Publishing with Arnold Leese. Others who followed him remained politically active. Colonel Kerr (as Lord Teviot) organised the merger of the Liberal National Party with the Conservatives in 1947. Major Edmondson was Chairman of the Carlton Club until 1956. Lt. Commander Agnew remained MP for South Worcs until […]
[…] to use the available information to make good decisions. The third is the innocence of Kahin himself. Kahin is described in the foreword as a New Deal liberal, who saw himself as a man of the left, but this didn’t prepare him for the reality of US foreign policy. I wanted this book mainly […]
[…] Some details of Hurd’s ‘Arabist’ inclinations in dealings with the Helen Smith enquiry/cover-up are included in a profile of Hurd in Private Eye (21 September 1984). Such liberal internationalists trace their historical roots back to the formation of the Round Table network at the beginning of the century, and if Carroll Quigley’s analysis is […]
[…] authored by the pseudonymous ‘James Hepburn’ and reputed to be the product of French intelligence. The Nation has a long history of slagging off conspiracy theorists: its liberal slant is that political assassinations only occur abroad, never at home – unless, as with Letelier, they are of foreigners, by foreigners. So I got the […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the Soviets […]
[…] but which is missing here. In these essays you can follow Vidal on the final stage of his journey from being a kind of patrician, cynical, left- liberal out into parapolitics and even into American conspiracy theory culture. ‘Revisionist historian’ has come to mean people who want to deny the reality of Hitler’s attempt […]
[…] Republic of China; and Lt. Col. Philip Corso, a 20-year veteran of Army intelligence (25) who went to work for Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) and once sued liberal columnist Drew Pearson for defamation.(26) Finally, the Honorary Grand Admiral of the SOJ is Admiral Sir Barry Domville, a former British intelligence chief who was interned […]
