[…] Brown and Fred Lee. Callaghan had no particular public profile, had not held a significant political post, and was eliminated in the first ballot with a low vote. After the death of Hugh Gaitskell in early 1963, Callaghan stood for leader of the Labour Party. Harold Wilson announced his candidacy from the centre-left; George […]
[…] August ’88). From being a local election agent, I know that Winter’s account of the votes being put into bundles by party is true. But at the vote counting the ballot papers were put into locked metal boxes. At some point they must be transferred to the paper sacks for disposal. This is presumably […]
[…] to get Bush Jnr. elected both times. I do not have direct knowledge of the operation, but research “Robert Gates”, “Bill Owns”, “electronic voting security”, “HAVE”, “ vote here” and “Scientific Applications International Crop”. The operation went so well that Gates was going to be made the first ever Director of National Intelligence. He […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
[…] in Britain’s shaky post-war situation economic information should be given a high priority. It was indeed satisfying when a single report could pay for the annual Secret Vote several times over. This was the pattern which, in his later appointments, Young attempted to set for the whole service. One report, however, did not meet […]
[…] the US State Department could not have foreseen the collapse of Communism nor the expansion of Europe (to the point where it would have its own bloc vote of small liberal countries) nor troops in Romania nor the triumph of the ‘third way’. It has never been in as much control of the agenda […]
[…] Ireland and, indeed, the failure to suspend Brookeborough’s government in the 1940s, the moment that it resisted the introduction of the Beveridge Plan and one person one vote throughout the rest of the UK. While Wilson quite rightly scrapped the USC in 1970 (in accordance with the Hunt Commission’s recommendations), he should have also […]
One of the benefits of living in the West is the freedom to criticize our politicians. The fact that the electoral system rarely reflects considered criticism is not the point. We have always known that it is centred on political parties that are run by small groups more intent on newspaper opinion, and on that … Read more
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century Scott … Read more
