[PDF file]: […] actually have been relatively well off at the time. 4 Banks was notably less sectarian than Livingstone and Corbyn and, after starting his political life in the Liberal Party circa 1960, had contested East Grinstead for Labour in the 1970 general election. 5 Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler ran the Social Democratic Alliance, a […]
[PDF file]: […] enough to oppose its loss and painful enough to prevent its occurrence. A division of labour emerged in the two wings of the US ruling party. The liberal wing devoted its energy to creating and maintaining the myth of what could be lost while the traditional wing (erroneously called ‘conservative’) became devoted to creating […]
[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]
[…] A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the truth: ‘The truth is more taxes will be needed – to contribute […]
[PDF file]: […] not confront the institutions that orchestrate social and economic injustice. They seek to make the ruling class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with […]
[…] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]
[PDF file]: […] Steve Bannon, one of the Munk debate series, that took place in Toronto in 2018. Here he actually argued that ‘extreme inequality’ is a threat to ‘the liberal order’, that there are people whose massive accumulation of wealth gives then ‘power that in a liberal state nobody should have’. Reflecting on when he studied […]
[PDF file]: […] Chemical Workers Union); • Cecil Hallett (Assistant General Secretary of the AEU); • John Raeburn (ex-Secretary of the London Trades Council); • Phillip Fothergill (ex-President of the Liberal Party Organisation); • the Duchess of Atholl (at the time President of the British league for European Freedom); • Edward Hulton (publisher of the Picture Post […]
[PDF file]: […] prime minister his attitudes may also be those of the rest of the Russian leadership. Centrally they are: an unselfconscious patriotism which is now rare in Western liberal democracies, and shame about the last century of Russian history. With the exception of the Great Patriotic War, everything since 1917 is written off as a […]
[PDF file]: […] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]
