[PDF file]: […] always easy meat for the orthodoxy of the City.) What was inflation between 1945 and 1970, 2-4% per annum on average? Who, in his or her right mind, would not trade off 4% inflation for full employment and 2% growth? Vaisey’s vision Another version of the same basic perception that a great watershed had […]
[…] past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a “conservative cast of mind“’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan Aitken.5 Three pages […]
[PDF file]: […] Wei, Blog, 7 February 2011. events.’ He became head of BP in 1995, after the Thatcher privatisation had ‘finally released the company from its governmental state of mind. It could become more commercial and competitive’. He went on to ‘transform BP into Britain’s leading business and a global giant. BP became the world’s second […]
[PDF file]: […] unfolds. Steele observed the collapse of Soviet Communism firsthand. He describes one particularly telling incident he witnessed in Moscow in 1991 that very much sticks in the mind, both his and mine. He saw a car crashed into a lamp-post with a dead driver at the wheel on his way home one Friday night […]
[PDF file]: […] between the privations suffered by ordinary citizens, especially pensioners and war veterans, and the affluence and corruption evident in senior Party circles.38 His willingness to speak his mind reinforced the paranoid school of opinion about him in the KGB and led to the temporary suspension of his training sessions and seminars: ‘It was Oleg […]
[…] defendant typically receives an expedited but much-reduced sentence for their candour and penitence. The effect of Ashton-Cirillo’s untruthful pre-trial comments was to convict Lira in the public mind as soon as he had been arrested. The reality was clarified when the Ukrainian authorities proceeded to set court dates for Lira’s defence case, in a […]
[…] always easy meat for the orthodoxy of the City.) What was inflation between 1945 and 1970, 2-4% per annum on average? Who, in his or her right mind, would not trade off 4% inflation for full employment and 2% growth? Vaisey’s vision Another version of the same basic perception that a great watershed had […]
[PDF file]: […] terms) irrational and damaging to the individual who engages in it. If you want an example of one of Richard Dawkins’ memes (mental viruses which capture the mind) at its most virulent, you cannot do better than the addiction to unbridled Page 83 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 laissez faire displayed in the face of […]
[PDF file]: […] opponents of rewards and not have them killed. (Although sometimes they are killed, too. Inter alia the deaths of Trotsky,9 Petra Kelly and Gerd Bastian10 come to mind.) Intent T o return to the issue of intent: whether one examines the historical debates in the International Workingmen’s Association or even those 9 The exact […]
[PDF file]: […] married against her will, before backing out at the last minute and being sent home to the UK in disgrace, he added.’ (emphasis added) Bearing that in mind, the fact from the prosecution presented evidence that she said, in a phone call she made from prison: ‘I’m so tired about things I didn’t get […]
