[…] 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]: […] book on the work of the 9/11 Commission. Another one, impressive in another way, is Paul Thompson. His 9/11 History Commons timeline is the product of enormous labour 6 and his four-part interview appropriately wraps up the Gold compilation. In offering us chapter-by-chapter research links for those wishing to dig deeper, Gold encourages others […]
[PDF file]: […] were normally made available for inspection in the PRO, now called the National Archives, after 50 years. This was reduced in 1967 to 30 years by the Labour government after a successful campaign by historians and others. Subsequently the Dacre Review recommended that the 30 year rule should be replaced by 15 years. The […]
[PDF file]: […] results started to trickle in. The example that is foremost in my mind is the constituency of Bedford Borough, my place of birth and a key Tory- Labour marginal. Here it was reported that a sack containing 5,000 extra votes had appeared, as if out of nowhere, when the count was nearing completion. When […]
[PDF file]: […] meant expanding the British principle of indirect rule by creating and supporting nominally independent regimes that bear all the social costs through extortionate taxation, while assuring that labour and natural resources are freely accessible to US corporations — in Vietnam’s case, particularly those operating in Japan. Unlike industrial economies, peasant economies, such as those […]
[PDF file]: […] is unprecedented, but it certainly reflects the times we are living through. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party. David Charter, ‘Joe Biden: Army will have to drag Trump out if he loses’, The Times 13 June 2020 7
[PDF file]: […] today being allowed to try and take this country down the same road. It will without doubt become the voice of the British Far Right once a Labour government – even a right-of-centre Starmer government – is in power. 2 2 election. (p. 107) He writes about a number of these militia groups, but […]
[PDF file]: […] the anti-communist activity since the war which reached a peak in the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security […]
[PDF file]: […] that far from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the […]
[…] today being allowed to try and take this country down the same road. It will without doubt become the voice of the British Far Right once a Labour government – even a right-of-centre Starmer government – is in power. 2 2 election. (p. 107) He writes about a number of these militia groups, but […]
