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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’
[PDF file]: […] who happened to remain there. As for the Black population of the US, they had nothing to say in the matter. The number of Blacks allowed to vote for Wilson was insignificant. Furthermore they did not need to go to Europe to be killed. It was dangerous enough being Black in the US. The […]
The View from the Bridge
Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites
[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
[PDF file]: […] referendum might have been influenced by hostile actors, which fed into an unwillingness to look at it too closely.6 Did the Russian try to influence the Brexit vote? Yes, they did. But the extant evidence shows that the Russians operations were relatively minor and seem unlikely to me to have had a significant effect.7 […]
States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl
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The view from the bridge
And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK
[PDF file]: […] of UKIP at that time, was not something Farage elaborated on.20 With Hayward’s backing, and that of a number of other donors, UKIP more than doubled their vote (6.5% to 15.5%) at the 2004 Euro Elections. After which Farage took over as leader, with their support rising to 4.4m (26.6%) by 2014. At which […]