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Off Message, and, Standing for Something
[PDF file]: […] of how it was that once in power Blair and Brown ‘essentially maintained the old Thatcherite consensus’ and transformed the Labour Party from ‘being a force for liberal social democracy to one of illiberal neo-conservatism’. While there are some telling anecdotes, he is not really successful in explaining the zombiefication of the Labour Party. […]
Tittle-Tattle
[PDF file]: […] revealed in the expenses scandal.2 Balls and Miliband have returned to their roots in many ways. Both left Oxford to take US scholarships, returning with the neo liberal, neocon attitudes which outfitted them nicely to be spear carriers in the stage army that became New Labour. Miliband went into the think-tank world before No […]
Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran
[PDF file]: […] Manning’s entrapment by Project Vigilant employee Adrian Lamo and Stratfor was ‘sexing-up’ the credibility of an incredible ‘plot’ to assassinate the Saudi 4 Lord Eric Avebury ( Liberal Democrat) to the author, November 2011 5 Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth, ‘Two Year Manhunt led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen’, New […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
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Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes
[PDF file]: […] properly, London) and elsewhere. If Islamist rebels make life too uncomfortable they can always go and live elsewhere. Indeed, she sees ‘kleptocracy’ as the way that so-called liberal democracies are moving. Altogether a very interesting and thought-provoking book. John Newsinger John Newsinger is a semi-retired academic. A new edition of his British Counterinsurgency is […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
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Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)
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[PDF file]: […] other way round. The existence of a buoyant and successful industrial and trading sector provides for a successful financial services and insurance sector. Only since the Thatcherite/neo liberal indifference to deindustrialization, the focus on the service economy, especially financial services, and the absence of efforts to keep up in health and public services, has […]