[PDF file]: […] called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state was the post-war model, committed to full employment, economic growth, modernization and social justice. It was not the liberal version (basically a customs union) favoured by the US Government, which viewed the 1951 Coal and Steel Treaty with a mixture of relief (because it brought […]
[PDF file]: […] the appeasement of Germany and on economic policy. Surveying the wreckage of traditional British industries, Macmillan had urged politicians, industrialists and investors to abandon their commitment to liberal economics and pursue not self-interest but a “national economic policy”, their actions guided by a State planning structure capable of taking a synoptic view.’ As ‘Supermac’ […]
[PDF file]: […] 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.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] combined Conservative and UKIP vote) not voting at all. Despite this the UK system delivered Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared to allow social liberal positions); and how these differ in turn from Steve Bannon’s ideas8 (the big difference being Bannon’s desire to pull the system down); and those of Tucker […]
[PDF file]: […] which so far neither Theresa May’s nor Boris Johnson’s administrations have been able to deliver. The Conservatives have split, with some MPs either leaving to join the Liberal Democrats or go independent. But the question of ‘Brexit’ has not proved a political problem for the Tories alone. Within Labour there remain voices, somewhat emboldened […]
[…] 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]: […] the population on the streets demanding their rights . ‘the highest per capita involvement in any of the protests during the Arab Spring’.8 This peaceful call for liberal reforms was brutally repressed by the regime, supported by a GCC 9 intervention force dominated by the Saudis. The GCC contingent, many of whom had been […]
[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 […]
