[PDF file]: […] on the Hollis matter in March 1981 was a lie. In those days lying to the Commons might have been a resigning issue. But since the leading Labour politicians of the time were afraid to go near any security issues, the Thatcher-Armstrong strategy wasn’t necessary. There is a wonderful German word, verschlimmbesserung, which means […]
[PDF file]: […] Is it a coincidence that marginalism11 in economics and progressivism (in civilian and military forms) emerged as management ideologies at the same time slavery was abolished and labour unions were becoming a serious threat to the order of things? Another colloquial abuse is the term ‘Marshall Plan’. Generally this term is loaded with positive […]
[…] country in the world.7 In reality, depending on how this is measured, we are about 17th. I caught the tail end of an interview with a female Labour MP on Times Radio in early September. Alas I didn’t catch her name but she repeated this canard. It does seem to be people on the […]
[PDF file]: […] who is keen on the dialling down? Who has said that this or that cannot be achieved? Perhaps a recent article in openDemocracy, ‘Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business’, will provide a few clues.1 What dialling-down Centrism implies is precisely the reason people search for alternatives. Centrism is an […]
[PDF file]: […] followed, with a ‘stage-managed confession’ to the world’s media a month later; then, in mid-March 2016, the guilty verdict and sentence to 15 years imprisonment and hard labour. The Atlantic gives a decent summary of New slogans are issued by the NK government each year and the literal translations into English make them sound […]
[PDF file]: […] the safety culture on sites. Building work is intrinsically dangerous; many are killed and injured. Improving safety regimes means working more carefully and slowly, and this increases labour costs. The picture that emerges of the construction industry in the UK in recent years is that of ruthless companies, for whom injuries to and deaths […]
[PDF file]: […] populist movement’ that was all about ‘taking down modern The US charter schools provided the model for the break-up of the British school system initiated by New Labour with local authority-controlled schools being turned into ‘academies’. 9 DeVos resigned from her position on 8 January 2021, condemning Trump for his part in inciting the […]
[PDF file]: […] parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski […]
[PDF file]: […] result the laws of war codified the practices of class (and race) distinctions too. In a POW camp it is generally prohibited to assign officers to manual labour. Within the scope of the camp’s resources, officers are to be accorded the courtesies and privileges due to their rank even in captivity. US soldiers remain […]
[PDF file]: […] 5 What people are waiting for is the government to publish the new rules aimed at outlawing blacklisting as it pledged to do back in 1999. Many Labour MPs were shocked to find that Kerr could only be prosecuted under data protection laws because of this anomaly. Ministers at the Department for Business, Innovation […]
