[…] political gossip; but at £29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, £7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, […]
[…] Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli used the crisis to buy the Khedive’s shares in the newly built Suez Canal. In 1876 Egypt was forced to accept a new financial regime, known as ‘Dual Control’. This put control of Egypt’s finances in the hands of British and the French personnel, although the majority were in […]
[…] more than describe and comment I want to try to shape debates, to move upstream in the process of how ideas bring about change.’ The chosen new arena for her talents was the congenial world of thinktankery Demos, no less, the home of the Third Way dreamed up by Geoff Mulgan (before […]
[…] Henri Paul was drunk and the ‘accident’ was indeed an accident.(8) A couple of points should be made, however. Stevens high-lighted the fact that a number of new eyewitnesses had been traced and interviewed, but failed to mention that most of the original witnesses had not been interviewed.(9)He also revealed that his inquiry team […]
[…] the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new world disorder. I’m not very interested in, or knowledgeable about, the current state of the CIA or the Russian service, and skipped through most of that. […]
[…] isn’t shown on the photocopy I was sent. Meanwhile, back at what’s left of the British Left Analysis (27 Old Gloucester St, London, WC1N 3XX) is a new magazine ‘committed to the revival of the classical Marxist tradition’. In issue 2 there is a long and inaccurate review of the Dorril/Ramsay book Smear!, at […]
[…] a more serious player. What caused me to fear for civil liberties was the ruthlessness that Blair and his cohorts had shown in fighting old labour. Also, New Labour’s love of money and the elevation of those with money to the high altar made me fear for public services and the gains of the […]
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, […]
[…] statecraft, which generates legitimacy and acknowledges that in our globalized world the state has lost its monopoly on the processing and diffusion of information.’ (p. 57) ‘This new imperialism….may threaten, coerce and at times even invade, but it does so with the claim to improve (that is, democratize) states and then leave.’ (p. 59) […]
[…] became, with others, a partner in Edsaco, while moving the administration of Berlusconi’s various offshore companies to Withers, the established law firm in which he became a new partner. As also recorded in this verdict, other Withers partners now began to take part in the administration of Berlusconi’s offshore companies. () This was not […]
