Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] the process strengthening the rights of the individual in the face of State power. The third barred Catholics from the throne, which appears a good deal less liberal to contemporary generations than the first two parts; but to those who drafted it the measure was rooted in the conviction that Catholicism, absolutism and oppression […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] abortion is infanticide; that homosexuality is an abomination; that Catholicism is a 12 false faith; and that God does not hear the prayers of Catholics, Jews or liberal Protestants. He also insists that ‘the Bible unequivocally promotes Small Government, the free market, and the development of business and commerce for personal gain. One of […]

Apocryphilia

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[PDF file]: […] (My emphasis). Do Danczuk and Baker get close to proving this? The authors provide Smith’s background – though not in detail. He was Chairman of the Rochdale Liberal Party in 1949, joined Labour and got elected as a local councillor in 1952. Thereafter he became a fairly typical example of the northern ‘boss politician’. […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

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[PDF file]: […] Labour Party from its links with the trade union movement, which he believed had long outlived its usefulness, and to instead make it the party of the liberal super rich. Labour would be turned into a British version of the Clinton-led Democratic Party, funded by the liberal wing of the ruling class. Brown, however, […]

The Brexit impasse

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[PDF file]: […] Michael Gove (the last two quite shamelessly placing their own ambitions ahead of the national welfare). Pressure groups such as Economists for Free Trade (EFT: basically the liberal economic ideologue Patrick Minford), encouraged by unjustifiably generous media treatment given the outfit’s actual size and weight in the field of applied economics, have not helped. […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this package is really about: the lack of judgment by CSIS, their dirty tricks, harassment and above all, their denial of basic justice to innocent Canadians. The Liberal Party of Canada is aware of this information, but according to a letter from Michael Ignatieff’s office (copied to the Evidence directory), the Liberals are not […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] was an entirely legal meeting of a local branch of a mainstream political party. In HN298’s ‘First Witness Statement’ he said of his penetration of the Young Liberal branch: ‘I did not discuss taking up this post with my managers beforehand.’ He then goes straight on to claim ‘I do not remember them saying […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and reading the private cables of antiwar leaders. Before long, the FBI was tapping the phones of key Republican leaders as well.1 9 Even the President’s passionately liberal wife, Eleanor, came under Hoover’s close scrutiny. FBI informants kept the bureau apprised of her many social and political associates 18 Flynt and Eisenbach, One Nation […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] Genocide Accords until a ‘sovereignty’ clause was inserted for protection against possible prosecution of U.S. citizens in defiance of universal political discourses and legal codes. From the liberal architects of technowar in Vietnam to the Bush Gang, the U.S. is guilty of genocide from the native Indians to Indochina to Iraq – the latter […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

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[PDF file]: […] as a doctor he purchased a practice (these were pre-NHS days) in the working class district of Thornton Heath near Croydon. He stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate unsuccessfully on two occasions (once as an unofficial Liberal candidate), later switched to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat […]

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