[PDF file]: […] populist movement’ that was all about ‘taking down modern The US charter schools provided the model for the break-up of the British school system initiated by New Labour with local authority-controlled schools being turned into ‘academies’. 9 DeVos resigned from her position on 8 January 2021, condemning Trump for his part in inciting the […]
[…] country in the world.7 In reality, depending on how this is measured, we are about 17th. I caught the tail end of an interview with a female Labour MP on Times Radio in early September. Alas I didn’t catch her name but she repeated this canard. It does seem to be people on the […]
[PDF file]: […] who is keen on the dialling down? Who has said that this or that cannot be achieved? Perhaps a recent article in openDemocracy, ‘Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business’, will provide a few clues.1 What dialling-down Centrism implies is precisely the reason people search for alternatives. Centrism is an […]
[…] Truthdig.com and a widely published writer of power, passion and refinement. He marks the decline of ‘the liberal class’ in the United States – the press, the labour movement, universities, the Democratic party and liberal religious institutions – from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He says there are now no […]
[PDF file]: […] parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski […]
[PDF file]: […] years later? Or did ‘the machine’ simply not bring it to their attention? What is clear, however, is that Savile’s gradual easing out from Broadmoor began after Labour took office in May 1997. By July that year, Savile’s friend and colleague Alan Franey had been nudged into taking early retirement from his post as […]
[…] was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers ‘soft coup’ of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been ‘utterly captured’ by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened through subscription to a ludicrously flawed ideology, the ‘revolving door’, […]
[PDF file]: […] Irish who had no reason to love Britain as the colonial master of their ancestral homeland?4 Complicating this was the known activism of Germans in the emerging labour movement. Then there was the large number of rural and semi-rural inhabitants far from the centres of power. Leaving aside the notorious ignorance of world geography […]
[PDF file]: […] (2015), has raised some interesting points. With apologies for putting O’Brien’s argument somewhat crudely, he argues that while Germany’s war in the East was certainly the more labour intensive, which accounts for the Wehrmacht’s huge death toll on that front, it was much more capital intensive in the West. The demands on Germany of […]
[PDF file]: […] model of long-term growth theory operating under the framework of neoclassical economics’. (p. 67) This is an economic formula which purports to show the relationship between capital, labour and technology in creating GDP growth. I am not an economist, so I cannot say to what degree this longstanding theory (dating from 1957) would uphold […]
