Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

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[PDF file]: […] an era of high-spending Keynesian interventionism. Sedgemore was one of Callaghan’s casualties, losing his seat in Luton West by 246 votes (despite increasing his own support) to Tory Monday Club member John Carlisle. Financial salvation came via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

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[PDF file]: Failed Führers: A His tory of Britain’s Extreme Right Graham Macklin London: Routledge, 2020, £24.99, pb John Newsinger Failed Führers is a volume in the Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right series. At the moment there are almost 60 volumes in the series, already published or forthcoming. The handful that I have […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They give investors exposure to an underlying asset without having to own it (and therefore appear on the regula tory filings that disclose the biggest holders of publicly-listed shares). The other main benefit is that swaps allow you to leverage up the bet. And here lies […]

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a s tory about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating […]

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

Tittle-Tattle

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[PDF file]: […] took the seat. It was the first time since before the Second World War that Morley – the core of the constituency – found itself with a Tory MP. Apparently Balls intends to spend part of his latest US sojourn doing some writing. During his first spell at Harvard he did some for Larry […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

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