[PDF file]: […] harbour at Larne, north of Belfast, owned by the Smiley family. (p. 2) While his grandfather played an important part in helping organise Unionist resistance against the Liberal government, his father, a cavalry officer, was actively involved in the ‘Curragh Mutiny’ in March 1914. David Smiley was born in April 1916, into a life […]
[PDF file]: […] of substance in the Hughes collection? Two names lay claim to some thoughtful analysis: Larry Elliott and Andy Beckett. Elliott has been a consistent critic of neo- liberal orthodoxy on the business pages for the lifetime of New Labour. Beckett, who caught up with the British American Project in The Guardian seven years after […]
[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]
[PDF file]: […] of the party. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘A partnership heading for destruction’, Financial Times, 23 May 2003; ‘The transatlantic divide must not be allowed to widen’, Financial Times, 23 June 2004; ‘America needs ” liberal realism” at the heart of its foreign policy’, Financial Times, 14 June 2006; and ‘The looming 100-year US-China conflict’, Financial Times, 5 June 2019. 4 2 […]
[PDF file]: […] brother Michael is a board member and Chief Energy Advisor. Also on the team as a board member is Vicky Price, former wife of Chris Huhne, former Liberal Democrat MP and energy and climate change Cabinet Minister. () In news reports of McWilliams’ crack cocaine ‘fall from grace’ he is often referred to as […]
