[PDF file]: […] do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess’. Without wanting to labour the point: ‘Rather, we have what might be called a government of all the talentless, incapable of competence in any domain and almost ludicrously inadequate to […]
[…] German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly enough, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got eighteen years for his crimes, but was released after four.2 As for occupied Germany, Kitson fondly […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.17 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
[PDF file]: […] correspondence with political figures across Europe, pursuing these interests. She was a friend of Lord Beveridge, and her brother, Richard Denman, sat in Parliament as a Liberal, Labour and National Labour MP between 1910 and 1945.8 The question arises, did she make this approach to Bonde as an individual, or was she asked to […]
[PDF file]: […] controls over the currency and over capital movements. China does not possess the conviction that private economic activity trumps public enterprise, that government should be small, organised labour suppressed, trade free and international capital flows unhindered. Its assistance for developing nations is not accompanied by requirements that states cut spending, privatise public industries and […]
[…] correspondence with political figures across Europe, pursuing these interests. She was a friend of Lord Beveridge, and her brother, Richard Denman, sat in Parliament as a Liberal, Labour and National Labour MP between 1910 and 1945.8 The question arises, did she make this approach to Bonde as an individual, or was she asked to […]
[PDF file]: […] roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet and TV documentary on the power of the Israeli lobby, his principled resignation from The Daily […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.16 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are […]
[PDF file]: […] US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a greater threat from organised labour. Private industry had been able to suppress unionisation with its own private police and detective agencies, like Pinkerton. The rapid expansion caused by the war effort […]
