[…] in their opening sentence, “It is surprising that relatively little work has been done on the role of capital in British politics”. ‘Pressure Groups: Right Thinking People’ Labour Research Feb. 1984 Profiles of, personnel involved in, financial contributions to: Adam Smith Institute, Aims of Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, […]
[…] for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.’ () The alliance between political liberalism, mainstream (i.e. non-evangelical) Protestants, and organised labour had formed the political basis for the New Deal in the Roosevelt era. During the Depression, ‘The Federal Council of Churches had provided enthusiastic support for […]
War stories Evidence that the Royal Air Force colluded with their German enemies in the most secret air mission of the Second World War has been discovered in the Czech Republic. The personal log books of some of the 87 Czechoslovak fighter pilots who escaped the 1939 German occupation of their country to fly RAF … Read more
James Jesus Angleton and the ‘Third Way’ The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet ‘moles’ and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current research … Read more
[…] class finds itself in, not least when it comes to religion and the threat of a US-led invasion. Despite Islam being the ideological underpinning of the repressive labour (and other laws), most Iranians remain Muslims and would want any political changes to respect that. This accounts for the comparative lack of success of more […]
[…] within the Conservative Party, the security and intelligence services, the City of London and the Bank of England and large-scale industry. Together with a handful of renegade Labour M.Ps like Richard Stokes, they might have formed a National Government committed to a non-aggression pact with Germany and the pursuit of a managed capitalism at […]
[…] to the Birmingham bombings. It is a devastating expose of an intelligence system out of control and outside the state system. Talk of democratic accountability from the Labour Party is a sick joke when one reads what took place when they were in power. Both of the above have good appendices (including a long […]
[…] Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian People’s Alliance all support that call for a ban on ‘manipulation weapons’. But the British government, formed by the Labour Party’s leader in Parliament, Prime Minister Tony Blair, has stubbornly refused to adopt a policy of banning manipulation weapons. So has the lower house of the […]
[…] sell as when it was offered as world revolution. Notes 1 This, presumably, is the ‘real internationalism’ so often referred to but hardly ever defined by the Labour left. On this see the examples given in Lobster 33 pp.2/3. 2 If the American anti-globalisation left could hold its collective nose long enough to actually […]
[…] Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with Labour left-wing MP Diane Abbott, at her home in Hackney – an odd call for the broker of a big arms deal to make. All these items […]
