The View from the Bridge

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[…] described by Thomas Mahl in his PhD and subsequent book, Desperate Deception (Virginia: Brassey’s, 1989) is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic30 I am on […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] published in 2018. Here he continued his assault on Obama, bitterly complaining about the great majority of American Jews supporting the man by selfishly putting their ‘ liberal ideology and knee-jerk rejection of Republicans’ before their ‘attachment to Israel’. To their shame, they have embraced ‘a very misguided, selfdestructive version of bleeding-heart liberalism’. Obama’s […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[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 […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be taken seriously. In the end, the Red Scare motif comes out on top. For those who are only familiar with the past forty years of neo- liberal Britain, with the country being quite openly and unashamedly run for the benefit of the rich and super rich, he sets out to remind his readers […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity, as victims or as perpetrators.’ […]

The view from the bridge

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[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] 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 […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] rolling political economic crises will only intensify. The effectiveness of the state as a referee within the capitalist system has historically been essential to the creditability of liberal democracy as a practical idea. As the state fails, so will liberal democracy, and with it the chance for some of the richest economies to learn […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] 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 […]

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