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Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the Conservative Party, the Anglican Church, the public schools and the ancient universities. Its power and influence continued to thrive in the late twentieth century and the first […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] early Cold War. In effect that alliance, exemplified most clearly in the relationship between James Angleton and Jay Lovestone, moved out of the Government and into the conservative movement. Questions of 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

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[PDF file]: […] repaid – there is now no external debt in the Labour Party.’ or 7 recovery, and advance reasons why Boris Johnson was able to produce a big Conservative majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his […]

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[…] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the re-election of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Page 38 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 […]

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[…] Hillsborough was the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ — when hundreds of officers clashed with protesters during the 1984 miners’ strike. At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] during their sojourn in London in 1907. Finkelstein D anny Finkelstein, whose personal political journey has taken him from the Labour Party via the SDP to the Conservative Party, made the following (fairly obvious) statement in The Times on 12 June: ‘….Britain wants a US level of taxation with European levels of spending and […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]

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[…] and wider society – could scarcely be higher.’3 (emphasis added) But none of our major political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the reelection of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Party, which he considers to be […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] the standards of France, Germany, Denmark etc, it is one. But uniquely, among European states as far as I know, there is a minority of the ruling Conservative Party which wants the state to fail; which welcomes a failing state; which regards the state as essentially a necessary evil to be kept as small […]

[PDF file]: […] elite interests. Well yes, sort of. From another perspective, said 2018 emails show fairly routine contemporary political machinating by a section of the Leave lobby within the Conservative Party: try to influence this or that body; place this or that person in a position to advance the cause; use social media to con people. […]