[PDF file]: Is a new ‘cold war’ coming? Dr T P Wilkinson T his question is asked repeatedly in the English-language media – probably the most heavily censored data streams in the world (a point to which I will return). Why should anyone worry about a new ‘cold war’? Perhaps it would be more relevant to worry […]
[PDF file]: […] are all bleak and plausible stories in which Britain is either invaded and defeated after Dunkirk, or sues for peace, with the appeasers ousting Churchill from power. Hitler winning seems a particularly popular story line today; but a clear inference to be drawn from all of this, whether in the UK or the US, […]
[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by critical abuse, […]
[PDF file]: […] in a purely ceremonial fashion, conscientiously signing the day-to-day paperwork of the state and being circumspect at all times. After 1933, it became clear Edward was pro- Hitler, very friendly with figures in the Anglo-German Fellowship, close to Charles Edward, Duke of Coburg (which makes for an interesting co-incidence of sorts with the Palme […]
[PDF file]: Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note Kevin Coogan In Anthony Frewin’s 2015 Lobster article ‘Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book’, he discusses an entry in Oswald’s address book about the far right. 1 Oswald wrote: NAT. SEC. DAN BURROS LINCOLN ROCKWELL ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AMERICAN NAZI PARTY (AMER. NATIONAL PARTY) Hollis sec. of Queens […]
[PDF file]: Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation Andrew Rosthorn Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked on computer in Dordogne Social scientists studying mass-media fantasies known as ‘moral panics’ have reported on an archive of internet traffic that reveals the social media origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal. This revelation was in the International Journal of Sociology […]
[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] how it was that working-class revolutionaries like Pollitt and Marxist intellectuals like Klugmann became apologists and serial liars for it. Having joined the CP in response to Hitler taking power in Germany in 1933, how on earth did Klugmann explain away, justify to himself, Stalin’s alliance with the Nazis in 1939? According to Andrews, […]
[PDF file]: […] be ready. 47 Sean Durbin, Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (Boston: Brill, 2019) p. 54 48 15 claimed that Hitler was a ‘half-breed Jew’ and a homosexual and that the Antichrist would be the same; and that the persecution the Jews had suffered throughout history, including […]
[PDF file]: […] Czechoslovakia in 1938. Klop hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English […]
