[…] of the single market — which is not a trading relationship, but a legal enforcement of big business’s rights — are maintained, possibly renewed every year by vote of Parliament.’ 6 Ovenden’s analysis is the more plausible to me and may explain why ‘fund manager’ Jeremy Hosking is preparing to spend getting on for […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that the Irish journalist, Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast […]
[PDF file]: […] Government to ban Donald Trump from entering the country. During the debate of the motion, speakers cited Trump’s ‘repeated anti-Mexican comments.’6 No surprise there then. Sadly, the vote was largely symbolic and mainly an attempt to pressurise Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto 4 See the report by ‘the largest global employment and labor law […]
[PDF file]: […] coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum, pursuing that against Corbyn’s wishes in the run-up to the 2019 election.11 The author writes: Of course, in the final months […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The penultimate paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
[PDF file]: […] the floor lies with the EU. Which creates a curious dilemma for me. I think the EU is absurd, a menace in many ways, and I would vote for UK withdrawal – were it not for the fact that the threat posed by the banksters is greater than that posed by the Eurocrats’ delusory […]
[PDF file]: […] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]
