[…] had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this tale of egos, rows, sulking, press character assassination, shunning, and internecine struggle between two gangs, Brown’s and Blair’s, it useful to be reminded of […]
[…] going to a lot of trouble to get this nonsense circulated. A free sample should be forthcoming on request from “Friends of the UK” PO Box 76D, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4BB, UK. In the US from PO Box 597004, Department 608, San Francisco, CA 94164-9004. Coming In From The Cold: British Propaganda and […]
[…] being a big-time journalist is that you never have to say you’re sorry. You just write a different story when your informants in the state give you new information and the cheques and the plaudits keep rolling in. (5) Notes 1 The obituary by David McKittrick in The Independent 4 April stated that he […]
[…] followed the lead of bosses in my mould, who demonstrated the system by their own greedy example through rewards and punishments calculated to perpetuate it.’ (p. 204) Notes This was also a feature of the British empire. Scott Newton refers to this happening in Egypt. See his Historical Notes in Lobster 42, p. 27. […]
[…] with a remarkable knowledge not just of the man and his works, but also of his reception among academics, politicians and the general reading public. In this new collection of essays, he declares himself to be one of those who insist that Orwell has to be seen as a democratic socialist, as someone who […]
[…] one of those named in the anonymous 1972 pamphlet The Monday Club – A Danger to Democracy. To judge by the statement of the aims of the new Campaign for Conservative Victory, with its emphasis on ‘coloured immigration’, Mr Swerling’s views have not changed much since the early 1970s. Mr Swerling took out a […]
[…] Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Special Branch Before the First World War Bernard Porter (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987) Porter is an academic historian working an interesting new seam, and this is really very good indeed. If anything his account of the SB’s fabrication of an ‘anarchist’ and ‘Irish threat’ in the 1880s and […]
[…] For those who have been following the story there’s not much here that will come as a surprise, but it may have some use as background reading for those new to the subject. Notes 1 It’s welcome to see the ideas around Colin Campbell’s ‘peak oil’ thesis being incorporated into this argument. See for example,
[…] or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United States. Indeed the speculation reported in this essay (at footnote 159), […]
Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99 I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and […]
