It is impossible to make an omlette without breaking eggs. — James Anderton on anti-terrorism My anger in this case stemmed from the denial that things had gone wrong, that no eggs were broken even though the omlette was there to see. — John Stalker David Murphy, The Stalker Affair and the Press, Unwin Hyman, … Read more
[…] extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but that is not the case. It has come to seem to me that their strongest loyalties are to each […]
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more
[…] on the sinking of the Belgrano is a mistake. With all due respect to the dead, there are more serious issues at stake. RR Oil… The received liberal version of the Falklands War now seems to be something like this. By a combination of cockups (the information on the threat of an Argentine invasion […]
Israel, the Jews, and the West: The Fall and Rise of Antisemitism William D Rubinstein London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2008, £10.00 The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from its Ashes Avraham Burg New York: Palgrave Macmillan, £15.99 A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity Edited by … Read more
[…] and my part in the operation being particularly easy in that it consisted of saying “No” at frequent intervals’. This was in 1970.(12) Mark was certainly no liberal. His rejection of Deane-Drummond’s prescriptions derived from the belief that they would exacerbate conflict situations whereas the role of the police involved ‘the containment or absorption […]
[…] lest we miss the point, Woodward tells us that ‘Felt thought the Nixon team were Nazis.’ How interesting! That’s what I thought! And so did every other liberal I knew at the time. Surprisingly, this was also the point-of-view of James McCord, the right-wing evangelist and former CIA officer who led the break-in team […]
On 8 March 1985 an attempt was made to assassinate one of the founders of Hizbullah, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, by car bomb in Beirut. The attack failed in its objective, but there was some ‘collateral damage’. While Fadlallah was untouched, some eighty bystanders, men, women and children, were killed and over two hundred injured. … Read more
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
[…] – once more Threadneedle Street was giving priority to international ‘obligations’ over commitments to build a fairer society at home. I reckon the Bank reverted to its liberal outlook of pre-war days in the late 40s – because by this time, given the 1949 sterling crisis and devaluation, currency liberalisation was seen as the […]
