The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state is … Read more
[…] on to occupy important positions in the Civil Service and in academic life, nevertheless made no attempt to use their positions of influence seriously to undermine parliamentary liberal democracy.” Glees op cit p 297Knightley made himself a small fortune from the Philby articles but earned no academic kudos. As Allen Douglas noted (Kim Philby: […]
[PDF file]: […] of the 2005 result ought to have signalled problems: Labour had won a majority with a seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and Respect had grown; and for the second successive election […]
[PDF file]: […] a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after World War One to develop a whole new social philosophy and agenda for economic policy on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘deep political history’ of the US is actually a struggle within the ‘oligarchy’ that rules America; between its ‘two ruling factions’ – identified respectively as the ‘ liberal’ right and ‘conservative’ right (p. 6) – for ‘dominance in the world’s most powerful country’. (p. 1) The competition between these two factions, claims Raso, has […]
[PDF file]: […] political economy has to a greater or lesser degree been replaced by one based on neo-liberalism, or ‘economic liberalism’ (the ability to continue describing the system as ‘liberal’ is important, as I shall argue later). In my view it is in this metamorphosis that we can see the origins of the current crisis. Why […]
[PDF file]: […] conceptual overlap, and it’s unclear how closely the two are linked. This doesn’t greatly trouble Dugin who is ideologically opposed to big-L Liberalism and is not particularly liberal with a small L either. 3 2 good, anyone in the West who now dissents from big-L Liberalism seems to automatically self-incriminate as preferring a social […]
[PDF file]: […] Association. Stewart-Smith’s contributions to the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press […]
[PDF file]: […] its own estimate – to confront the spectre of Bolshevism and survive. Lloyd George himself, searching always for a middle way in politics, had shifted away from Liberal radicalism towards a corporatism best described as the creation in Parliamentary politics of a staatspartei, composed of Liberals and mainstream Conservatives (leaving a fringe right wing […]
[PDF file]: […] nations to be peacefully resolved via co-operation between the great powers in the UN Security Council – a contemporary version of the nineteenth century ‘Concert of Europe’. Liberal Internationalism Set against this was the West’s vision of the international scene after the conclusion of the first Cold War. The philosophy and discourse underpinning it […]
