[PDF file]: […] with everything you say. You can only know something is true if you already believe it is true. Evidence can be falsified after all, as in the Trump assessment of the photographic evidence of a presidential inauguration turnout. Or you can say ‘there are alternative facts’. The question I asked myself, reading Rid’s book, […]
[PDF file]: That was the world that was Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967 edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017, £24.99 (p/b) ISBN-13: 978-1138675179 Scott Anthony Although the book begins in 1967, Tomorrow Belongs to Us is primarily the story of the post-1968 generation’s […]
[PDF file]: […] 10 leaders this century with five others taking the acting position. 6 7 3 Campbell has earned a good living as a professional anti-Tory. Along with Donald Trump, it is Conservatives who are largely his target in this book as he seeks to inspire his readers to move on from ‘tweeting, blaming and bemoaning […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘unbreakable’, and that ‘there is no power on earth that can drive us apart’. Powerful stuff, one of the great ‘I am not Spartacus’ speeches. Would the Trump phenomenon have threatened to ‘drive us apart’ if Brown were still in power? The likelihood is that a Brown government would be doing its best to […]
[PDF file]: […] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic strategy, […]
[PDF file]: […] US telephone calls and briefings and, rallying behind whoever is flavour of the month in respectable politics, would have found a way to drop the matter. But Trump is President, not Clinton. This hasn’t and won’t happen and – carrying on the football terminology – we are now resigning (or being expelled) from the […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[PDF file]: […] to Duncan, because this might compromise relations with the United States. Duncan wants the government to ‘assert our independent, confident view of the world by telling both Trump and Netanyahu to bugger off . . . But we will instead capitulate and be supine’. He tells Simon McDonald, a Permanent UnderSecretary at the FCO: […]
