[…] the Young Liberals who in the sixties joined what was known as ‘the Red Guard’. Young Liberals like Peter Hain and Peter Hellyer went against the traditional Liberal line and started campaigning along lines more akin to the Radical left. They stood out against the Vietnam War/Apartheid and for the Palestinians against the Israelis. […]
[…] even wonders about the identity or motivation of Deep Throat. Nixon held the press off for a while with attack, the same sort of howling about the ‘liberal media’ which dominates the media today. It seems to have worked so well that Greenberg appears desperate to avoid being labelled a ‘nattering nabob of negativism’ […]
[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
[PDF file]: The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ Tom Griffin, Hilary Aked, David Miller and Sarah Marusek Spinwatch Public Interest Investigations, 2015 PDF version: http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/more/item/5777new-report-on-the-henry-jackson-society Perhaps it’s some mark of the state of British politics that Michael Gove, the British Lord Chancellor and Justice […]
[…] BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BY IZVESTIYA (LE MONDE 22.12.68) *RELATED TO LORD BIRKENHEAD (FREDERICK WINSTON FURNEAUX SMITH) MARRIED TO HON SHEILA BERRY BESSELL, PETER JOSEPH B 24.8.21 REFORM, NATIONAL LIBERAL 1943-45 LECTURER TO HM FORCES MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 1956-60 LIBERAL EXEC. CONTESTED ELECTIONS 1964 LIBERAL MP 1967 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION TO S VIETNAM 1967-68 NATIONAL PRES BROTHERHOOD […]
[…] wrecked. The only action Britain could take in these circumstances would be to implement Operation Brutus, with its controls, which would mean opting out of the post-war liberal international trade and payments system and returning to a 1940s-style siege economy. It was this prospect which led the Bank to favour a sterling float, in […]
“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more
See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien . It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to which […]
[…] obviously evaporated. So after 1979 there was indeed ‘no alternative’ to a reassertion of laissez faire, pursued with zeal by Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher sought to recreate the liberal synthesis of free markets, liberty and greatness which (she believed) had characterised Britain in 1851. Yet this could not be done. Economic liberalisation, if anything, accelerated […]
[…] the culmination of a campaign against the tour run by Anti-Apartheid. We gave a night’s accommodation to students sent to us by Peter Hain (then a Young Liberal) and all elements of ‘the left’ combined in a massive demonstration. Peter Jordan was allowed to leave the rugby ground after spreading the tin-tacks and was […]
