The View from the Bridge

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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 […]

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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 […]

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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[PDF file]: […] play; and a different public opinion from Britain’s, whose once proud popular anti-spy tradition seems to have evaporated almost entirely. If the US can exercise a more liberal influence on Britain here, it will be an interesting twist in the long history of their ‘special’ intelligence relationship. Otherwise – and this seems an extraordinary […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]

Friends of Israel

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[PDF file]: […] founded in Geneva in 1936, which has long been staunchly Zionist. . . . Reflecting the private sector orientation of much contemporary Zionist activism in the neo liberal era, the Global Coalition for Israel’s key architects called it ‘a public-private partnership’. The World Jewish Congress described it as ‘a cooperative and collaborative global approach […]

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.27 It makes obvious political sense […]

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[…] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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