The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neo Conservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer and not a member of […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was a strong champion of the veracity of the Protocols, ‘winning favourable comments from none other than Winston Churchill among many others. There was pressure from some Conservative MPs for an official inquiry into the Jewish conspiracy supposedly uncovered in the document’. (p. 31) The Times’ decision to publish Philip Graves’ three part exposé […]

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton

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[PDF file]: […] the Japanese economy in the long term – the opposite in fact. In contrast, the experience in the UK is that the austerity policies promoted by the Conservative governments since 2010 have resulted in more damage to the long term prospects of the UK economy and in its short term economic performance. Kelton does […]

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[…] idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.3 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s 1977 plan to fight the miners on the government’s terms, the so-called Ridley Plan for Coal, was rediscovered a few weeks into the […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

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[PDF file]: […] less humane instincts into the firm grip of the British state and its allies. When he became DPP in 2008 he worked closely with the Coalition and Conservative governments in the UK and the Obama administration in the US, commending himself as a safe pair of hands on both sides of the Atlantic. Eagleton’s […]

Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

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[…] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 7 5

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] been involved with the National Union of Students in the early 1980s. He 33 recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many […]

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