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The Never Trumpers
[PDF file]: […] danger Trump posed. Whatever the outcome of the election and however turbulent what will hopefully be the last months of Trump’s tenure the Never Trumpers books remain relevant, useful and worth reading. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party.
A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election
[PDF file]: […] made so vociferously in the media were unfounded. ’ 9 By the time the report – originally commissioned by Mr Dorrell for the Conservatives – was published, Labour were in power. That less than two years old Government failed to tell Parliament how the review found ‘a member of Broadmoor’s staff’ had brought a […]
Crazytown
[PDF file]: […] Right will suddenly discover that Trump’s excesses are, in all conscience, no longer tolerable. * John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.
Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch
[PDF file]: […] and Frank Kitson being accorded the status of counterinsurgency gurus. Attempts to challenge this consensus were batted away without too much difficulty.1 Until that is, the New Labour decision to provide military support for the US adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly, the British record was most vulnerable in Kenya where it was always […]
And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK
[PDF file]: […] world. David Cameron,1 Theresa May,2 various Liberal Democrat candidates3 and Nigel Farage,4 all stated that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world. In the Labour Party manifesto for the 2018 general election, Jeremy Corbyn stated that the UK is the fifth richest country The Independent, 9 November 2015 ? or and […]
Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment
[PDF file]: […] – were saved by billions in drug money in 2008? Does the fact that Japan exploited both Korea and Vietnam to provide cheap food for its industrial labour force have any bearing on the US decision to invade those countries when its official Asia policy was to rebuild Japan as an Asian platform for […]
Mexico missive
[PDF file]: […] markedly similar situation in the UK, some of the indigenous population seemingly consider themselves above serving food in restaurants, mopping floors in hospitals and other general manual labour. Providing the 1 Locals who live next to his Aberdeen golf course raised Mexican flags next to their own St Andrew’s Crosses in a spirit of […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened through subscription to a ludicrously flawed ideology, the “revolving door’” […]
Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967, edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley
[PDF file]: […] Among other things, this cycle also appears to map very roughly on to the political cycle: electability seems the preferred strategy of the far right during a Labour government and violence during a Conservative one. A fundamental issue in this kind of research is that the distance between the academics and what they write […]