[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, […]
[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 […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[PDF file]: […] to Duncan, because this might compromise relations with the United States. Duncan wants the government to ‘assert our independent, confident view of the world by telling both Trump and Netanyahu to bugger off . . . But we will instead capitulate and be supine’. He tells Simon McDonald, a Permanent UnderSecretary at the FCO: […]
[PDF file]: […] California Press, 2018) p. 95 7 5 Among the most venomous of Goldstone’s attackers was Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, a staunch Zionist and later a Trump supporter.8 He has written a number of books defending Israel and has two books forthcoming, with titles that tell you everything you need to know about […]
[PDF file]: […] only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the ‘liberal power […]
[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is mostly […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* He’s not the Messiah. . . he’s a very naughty boy! You’ll have to forgive my twice using a Monty Python reference within this one issue’s ‘South of the Border’, but it’s the only sensible reaction to some recent communication1 from ‘God’s own spy’, David […]
