[PDF file]: […] time? What comparisons can be made with today’s methods of marketing political brands? What of the similarities between Nazi marketing techniques and the rise of, say, Donald Trump? The core element of political marketing is to recognise the simple truth that manipulating perception matters more than possessing an intellectual understanding of the complexities of […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘belt and road’ initiatives – are designed to project political and military power as well as commerce. The deterioration in economic relations has followed accusations from the Trump administration that China has not respected intellectual property rights and that it has operated a mercantilist economic strategy while paying lip service to the ideals of […]
[PDF file]: […] the broadcast media on the American right, notably Fox News, which gave air time to some of the theories – and by then presidential candidate, later president, Trump. (p. 129) It is unclear to what extent Donald Trump’s erratic comments on Covid in its early stages legitimised the vaccine sceptics. How this ‘perfect storm […]
[PDF file]: […] far only a few short months after their celebration of a victory for democracy and the rule of law. The United States now demanded that its interests trump democracy in Panama, while Panama dug in to resist attempts to make it enforce North American laws. One U.S. Senate staffer said bluntly, ‘It’s time for […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Spook joke department ‘UK spies will need artificial intelligence’ reads the headline to a Gordon Corera piece on BBC news online.1 Yes, the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or “DPA,” […]
[PDF file]: […] As it happens, there is no special relationship between the US and the UK. The US would have preferred the UK to remain in the EU. Obama, Trump and now Biden did not encourage the UK with the prospect of a trade deal, except one on US terms. Moreover Biden is particularly keen to […]
[PDF file]: […] with everything you say. You can only know something is true if you already believe it is true. Evidence can be falsified after all, as in the Trump assessment of the photographic evidence of a presidential inauguration turnout. Or you can say ‘there are alternative facts’. The question I asked myself, reading Rid’s book, […]
[PDF file]: […] the government of the United States – with ease. It was stunning to realize how fragile our Constitution was’. (What on earth does he make of the Trump presidency?) The War on Terror was an opportunity to reshape the whole Middle East in the US interest, beginning with the decision to invade Iraq. And […]
[PDF file]: […] US telephone calls and briefings and, rallying behind whoever is flavour of the month in respectable politics, would have found a way to drop the matter. But Trump is President, not Clinton. This hasn’t and won’t happen and – carrying on the football terminology – we are now resigning (or being expelled) from the […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic strategy, […]
