The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
[PDF file]: […] which, for much of the 1930s, had experienced a severe economic slump and large-scale joblessness, followed by sluggish growth. Organised labour, represented politically by socialist, socialdemocratic and communist organizations, became as critical to the war effort as the armed forces. This process was visible in states such as the UK which remained free throughout […]
[PDF file]: […] 16. (The first five pages of chapter one describe Wynne’s arrest and transportation to the Lubyanka prison.) 22 loony faction of MI5 that were convinced there were communist sympathisers in the Harold Wilson’s Cabinet.23 Protecting the Trumps Donald Trump has many enemies and, in most cases, he would seem to be the one responsible […]
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[PDF file]: […] Free on 16 July: ‘The core of New Labour was a bitchy queen, a depressive fawner upon powerful men, a couple of messianics, a coterie of ex- Communist Party opportunists, a few jaded, modist “thinkers” and a young Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? […]
[PDF file]: […] Trump team, many Conservative MP’s and UKIP have at least one thing in common: all have a visceral dislike of the EU, regarding it as a quasi- communist entity with which they will have no truck. In corporate management speak, we are going on a journey, caused by two countries with defective electoral systems; […]
[PDF file]: […] to broker peace deals with the UK. There was a generally pro-German, anti-Russian stance of many Swedes at that time. This stemmed from the emergence of a Communist state in Russia (from 1917) and the Soviet attack on Finland (in 1939), the latter resulting in a Swedish Volunteer Corps fighting alongside the Finns.3 These […]
