[PDF file]: […] that by May 1941 Nazi Germany was now either dominating or in control of the European continent and all its resources outside the USSR, final victory over Hitler (as opposed to national survival and immunity against invasion) looked most unlikely. To the peace party, it therefore made sense to settle with Berlin sooner rather […]
[PDF file]: […] Matthews Our Island Story Before the teaching of history to children in this country descended to its current formula of dinosaurs + Romans + Henry VIII + Hitler (with a side helping of slavery) the past was taught in a rather different way. Many who were at primary school pre-1980 will be familiar with […]
[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]: […] and was widely admired across the world as a reforming moderniser. This is something today’s readers would do well to remember. When Zangara shot at Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor of Germany for a fortnight, and fascism was not yet seen as a toxic ideology. A large exodus of anti-fascist Italians had […]
[PDF file]: […] USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the […]
