Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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[PDF file]: […] of stout party Eden, Suez and America Simon Matthews Have you heard the one about the Conservative Prime Minister who is disowned by the right-wing of the Tory Party for not seeing through a bombastic and nationalist policy, and disowned by its left-wing for duplicity and generally ridiculed by the wider public? Forget 2017. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Second Battle of Alamein. Despite German Jewish origins, he served post-war in the British army campaign against Jewish insurgents in Palestine, 1945– 1948. Olivia Frank’s life s tory, variously published as Naked Spy Girl, The Mossad Spy, Thatcher’s Prisoner, and currently available from Amazon as The Third Direction,1 describes how she was prescribed oestrogen […]

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[…] killed 28 people in a series of random shootings in Belgium in the 1980s.’1 Although Gladio was originally the name of the Italian network, when this s tory was revealed in the Italian press, Gladio became the shorthand for the entire multinational network. Officially Britain had no Gladio network. Almost nothing has come to […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Second Battle of Alamein. Despite German Jewish origins, he served post-war in the British army campaign against Jewish insurgents in Palestine, 1945– 1948. Olivia Frank’s life s tory, variously published as Naked Spy Girl, The Mossad Spy, Thatcher’s Prisoner, and currently available from Amazon as The Third Direction,1 describes how she was prescribed oestrogen […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has issued from British manufacturing as the overvalued pound began putting them out of business. This did not deter Brown. He wanted ‘stability’ and ‘an end to Tory boom and bust’ – phrases you must have heard a hundred times a year. But Brown defined ‘stability’ simply as low inflation – currency instability didn’t […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

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[PDF file]: […] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]

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[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]

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[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]

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