[PDF file]: […] combined Conservative and UKIP vote) not voting at all. Despite this the UK system delivered Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these […]
[PDF file]: […] out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity, as victims or as perpetrators.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] may have allowed the C&CC changes – apparently without understanding what they implied – but when push came to shove, politics (and prime ministerial power) prevailed over liberal orthodoxy; and Heath refused to allow the rates to rise as far and as fast as the Bank of England wanted.45 The result was the worst […]
[PDF file]: […] (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared to allow social liberal positions); and how these differ in turn from Steve Bannon’s ideas8 (the big difference being Bannon’s desire to pull the system down); and those of Tucker […]
[PDF file]: […] which so far neither Theresa May’s nor Boris Johnson’s administrations have been able to deliver. The Conservatives have split, with some MPs either leaving to join the Liberal Democrats or go independent. But the question of ‘Brexit’ has not proved a political problem for the Tories alone. Within Labour there remain voices, somewhat emboldened […]
[PDF file]: […] – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided themselves on the building of the decent society. They flocked to state-subsided films like Ken […]
[…] described by Thomas Mahl in his PhD and subsequent book, Desperate Deception (Virginia: Brassey’s, 1989) is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic30 I am on […]
[PDF file]: […] the population on the streets demanding their rights . ‘the highest per capita involvement in any of the protests during the Arab Spring’.8 This peaceful call for liberal reforms was brutally repressed by the regime, supported by a GCC 9 intervention force dominated by the Saudis. The GCC contingent, many of whom had been […]
[PDF file]: […] published in 2018. Here he continued his assault on Obama, bitterly complaining about the great majority of American Jews supporting the man by selfishly putting their ‘ liberal ideology and knee-jerk rejection of Republicans’ before their ‘attachment to Israel’. To their shame, they have embraced ‘a very misguided, selfdestructive version of bleeding-heart liberalism’. Obama’s […]
[PDF file]: […] be taken seriously. In the end, the Red Scare motif comes out on top. For those who are only familiar with the past forty years of neo- liberal Britain, with the country being quite openly and unashamedly run for the benefit of the rich and super rich, he sets out to remind his readers […]
