[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]
[…] (non-communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America’s most important […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Review of Books: ‘Real-term wages in Britain today are no higher than they were in 2005. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a succession of mostly Conservative politicians has sought to assure the British people that once the difficult bit (first austerity, then Brexit, then Covid) is behind us, the good times will […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] left) supported/ penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America’s most important […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] US ruling party. The liberal wing devoted its energy to creating and maintaining the myth of what could be lost while the traditional wing (erroneously called ‘ conservative’) became devoted to creating and maintaining the expectation of pain. Liberal ‘Cold War’ practice therefore emphasised all the ‘blessings’ of America: consumerism, entrepreneurialism, hedonistic political institutions, […]
[…] Review of Books: ‘Real-term wages in Britain today are no higher than they were in 2005. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a succession of mostly Conservative politicians has sought to assure the British people that once the difficult bit (first austerity, then Brexit, then Covid) is behind us, the good times will […]
