[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]
[PDF file]: Scott Newton Nairn and Marx Tom Nairn, who died in January, was one of the most powerful and perceptive political theorists of our time. He was a Marxian whose writings often appeared in journals such as New Left Review and The London Review of Books, as well as in books such as The Break-Up of […]
[…] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that of other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]
[PDF file]: […] on one hand, the ally of America as its biggest customer for weapons and backer of the dollar, and on the other its enemy as America sustains Israel. Add to which the Saudi state’s use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA’s use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, […]
[PDF file]: […] during the Corbyn years. There are some who merely changed tack: Sir Trevor Chinn, a leading light in the Jewish community and backer of Labour Friends of Israel, for example. In 2020 he was a big funder of Starmer’s leadership campaign, as well as backing other party luminaries like Tom Watson, who relentlessly sought […]
[PDF file]: […] foremost a British term (derived from cricket). 10 A short but useful academic overview has since been published – see ‘Falafel and Apple Pie’, Dahlia Scheindlin and Israel WaismelManor (in Routledge Handbook of Political Management, 2009) Page 35 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1990, where their novelist candidate Mario Vargas Llosa ignored their advice and […]
[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]
[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]
[PDF file]: […] left. Bower also expends a great deal of his narrative (as have the mainstream media) on a detailed poking about in Corbyn’s support for Palestine, antipathy towards Israel (as presently constituted, at any rate) and alleged difficulties with anti-semitism. This may be what sells books but, by default, it means that wider issues are […]
[PDF file]: […] Zionist intelligence service. They then blackmailed Nelson Rockefeller into pressuring the Latin American nations to give the extra votes in the UN to create the State of Israel.’ (fn 20 p. 12).1 But this startling claim is not documented. Unable to review this, I can merely report that the original 1982/3 edition received a […]
