Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced […]
[…] even in these enlightened times – by the intelligence services. * * * Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk More on Colin Wallace (See Lobster 1). Liberal Peer, Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk, have joined forces to help prove his innocence. Avebury has written to witnesses who gave evidence at the […]
[…] Soldier turned academic (at the University of Exeter), Clutterbuck was best known for writing a series of books about urban guerillas, trade unions and other threats to liberal democracy in the 1970s. Of these Britain in Agony (Faber and Faber 1978) was the best known (and had the silliest title). David Floyd (obit Guardian […]
[…] weighty voices in his corner and does show that the trial and the creation of the ‘court’ were mounted on little more than the kind of vague, liberal guff (‘the international community’) which is running round in Tony Blair’s brain posing as thought. Laughland thinks this is a dangerous step. Even without the arguments […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see … Read more
[…] class. In the week that the IRA announced its decommissioning amidst a Nuremberg-style rally in Dublin, I got into an interesting argument with one of my more liberal colleagues at Queens University. The woman in question was horrified that I saw decommissioning as a sham because IRA criminality meant they could buy new guns […]
[…] of it back from them. He sees the current situation as the outcome of struggle between factions of the American ruling class, between what he calls neo- liberal multilateralism and neo-conservative unilateralism. The multilateralists were exemplified by the Trilateral Commission who, in the 1970s, during Jimmy Carter’s term, had a go at creating a […]
[…] on to occupy important positions in the Civil Service and in academic life, nevertheless made no attempt to use their positions of influence seriously to undermine parliamentary liberal democracy.” Glees op cit p 297Knightley made himself a small fortune from the Philby articles but earned no academic kudos. As Allen Douglas noted (Kim Philby: […]
Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The […]
[…] about whom little has appeared in the British press – is at Stevenson is the figure on the left of the picture that tops William Clark’s posting. Murray’s evidence can be viewed at Murray posts a lively blog at For the apology and Godson’s 2007 ‘Newsnight’ performance, see Sunny Hundal’s ‘ Liberal Conspiracy’ story at
