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Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] of racial violence and vandalism. There would be much more horror to come’. And ‘at least two prominent white supremacist organizations – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – saw their websites crash due to the flood of online traffic that came their way following Obama’s victory’. Incredibly, Johnson has had the faces […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

More Hess

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[PDF file]: […] interest. His interlocutor at this point, Lt Murrough Loftus, had been commissioned in the Scots Guards on 21 December 1940 and was the son of Pierse Loftus, Conservative MP for Lowestoft. It seems to be assumed in various accounts, including Padfield,7 that Lt. Loftus was sent to guard Hess to obtain from him details […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] of racial violence and vandalism. There would be much more horror to come’. And ‘at least two prominent white supremacist organizations – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – saw their websites crash due to the flood of online traffic that came their way following Obama’s victory’. Incredibly, Johnson has had the faces […]

The economic crisis continues

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[PDF file]: […] Lobster 61 the last economy-wide recession in 1994.’ 1 9 But nothing has actually been done. This is not surprising. How do the British state and the Conservative Party now decide to build an industrial strategy? Does the British state have people in its upper echelons who believe in the economically active state (except […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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[PDF file]: […] the Mistress of the Robes; her brother-in-law, Lord Eustace Percy, was several times a member of the Cabinet and is still today an influential member of the Conservative Party There was hardly one of those named who was not at least occasionally in favour of a German–English understanding. . . . I wrote a […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] high exchange rate. The UK index of industrial production slumped from 113.1 in 1979 (1975 = 100) to 100 in 1982. Manufacturing Christy Cooney, ‘Nigel Lawson: former Conservative chancellor dies aged 91’, The Guardian, 3 April 2023. 3 See Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical (London: Corgi, 1993), […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] context. 2 REVIEW INTO THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE (AND ASSOCIATED SCHEMES) IN GOVERNMENT (caps in original) at or . 3 1 The contemporary Conservative politician has relatively few core beliefs but one of them is ‘public bad, private good’. Anyone who suggests getting the private sector into the state’s activities […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

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[PDF file]: […] from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the Guardian hunted […]