Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The […]
[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]: […] ‘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[PDF file]: […] political economy has to a greater or lesser degree been replaced by one based on neo-liberalism, or ‘economic liberalism’ (the ability to continue describing the system as ‘liberal’ is important, as I shall argue later).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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in the process. Homophobia, opposition to women’s rights and to the right to abortion, the defence of ‘family values’, Christian schooling – indeed saving Christianity itself from liberal secularist assault – were to increasingly become the core of Christian Right politics. The Moral Majority claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote […]
[PDF file]: […] in particular, comparing circumstances when it began with how matters rest today. Then….. Though people may have forgotten this, in 1952 Britain was governed by a Conservative-National Liberal coalition with 321 MPs. Of these 35 represented constituencies in Scotland and 69 in the north of England.1 Reflecting that this was an administration that had […]
