[PDF file]: […] and economic underperformance spurred a search for more modern tools than public ownership and strong trade unions. That is fair enough, but it should be borne in mind that social democracy, as practised from Macmillan onwards, was to the right of the 1945 settlement. Hence the impatience of Labour romantics such as Michael Foot […]
[…] slogan – or mission statement – ‘all conspiracy – no theory’; and that is on the front cover of Popular Paranoia, along with: ‘Conspiracy! UFOs! True Crime! Mind Control! Parapolitics!’; a pulp crime scene painting, sprawling woman, man with gun in hand; and the title, in pulp magazine typeface, Popular Paranoia. Is Thomas telling […]
[PDF file]: The Conversation Colin Challen It was a word salad of mind-numbing banality, replete with boilerplate platitudes (“national renewal for a new national purpose”), management-speak gibberish (“delivery-focused crosscutting mission boards”) and meaningless drivel (a more “empowering, catalytic” government). These are not the words of an Opposition leader connecting cleverly with the British people and on his […]
[PDF file]: […] assembled on his premiership records a fall from grace summed up by its title. ‘The demure public image was the front of a woman with a steely mind who was fiercely protective of her husband and family. She formed a strong, and to some at No 10 surprising, alliance with Damian McBride and Charlie […]
[PDF file]: […] would be used to smear the Labour Party itself with the enthusiastic support of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. We have to also bear in mind that if Labour had been re-elected in 1951, then we would have certainly seen a serious stepping-up of the British purge, extending it into the field […]
[PDF file]: […] be exercised independent of material ownership through often very complex legal mechanisms intended to conceal such control. 5 simply part of the national security state – never mind what Mr Snowden says about the NSA. It may not be possible in our lifetimes – or ever – to reorganise human society so as to […]
