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The view from the bridge
Political life in Britain
The view from the bridge
When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] Schuster, 2018). On p. 217 Turchin summarises Carlson’s position as accusing the Democrats of • becoming a party of the rich; • of supporting immigration because immigrants vote Democrat; • of supporting overseas military adventurism; • of attacking free speech; • of not taxing the wealthy or asking why working people are dying younger. […]
The view from the bridge
Peer group pressure
View from Bridge
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]