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Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell
[PDF file]: […] was rapidly replaced by another,6 with media leaks by his right-wing party ‘comrades’ constantly undermining coherent opposition in Holyrood. He records on March 23 2019: The ‘People’s Vote’ campaign organised a march and rally in London with Nicola Sturgeon sharing a platform with, among others, Alastair Campbell, Tom Watson and Michael Heseltine. It was […]
The View from the Bridge
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson was seen as the front runner, with Michael Gove as his ‘dream […]
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The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland
[PDF file]: […] and social system, and dominated political institutions and public discourse to such an extent that democracy and freedom of speech were empty phrases. The public had a vote, but it did not matter what party they elected, as they were all controlled by ‘the unseen, non representative power Finance’. The final stage of liberalism’s […]
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South of the Border
[PDF file]: […] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]