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Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

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[PDF file]: Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show Scott Newton Zachary Carter’s quite excellent recent biography of the economist J. M. Keynes1 makes a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after […]

Newton on Keynes

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Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show Scott Newton Zachary Taylor’s quite excellent recent biography of the economist J. M. Keynes1 makes a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

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[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

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[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

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[PDF file]: And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK Simon Matthews It’s a good job that the requirements for membership of the G7 are vague. The organisation started in March 1973 as the G5 with a decision to hold regular, informal meetings of the finance ministers and officials of the US, UK, West Germany, […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The further adventures of Boris Johnson By the time you read this, the thrilling event that was ‘Boris on Brexit, Live’ 1 will have taken place. This Daily Telegraph event was due to happen on 26 March 2019. It is officially described thus: ‘Three days before […]

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Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] 3 also reminds us, was the co-founder and vice-chairman of Cambridge Analytica. He has also claimed to have occasionally advised Boris Johnson on how to bring down Theresa May – and, presumably, on how to play the culture wars card. This is followed by another essential chapter, ‘Politics, Privatised’, where he looks at those billionaires […]