[…] 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
[…] the Spanish Civil War but she could not recall on whose side. He was a very powerful public speaker and orator and had once stood as a Liberal candidate in a general election. The name Clay Shaw meant nothing to her. Hughes was very active in the English Speaking Union and frequently went on […]
[…] Hegel’s most effective pupil, might have built a theory of colonisation on this if he hadn’t shared many of the racial/racist assumptions of his contemporaries, including his liberal opponent, Mill. Mac Laughlin examines the growth of the notion of the ‘native’ in Ireland, with the concomitant fear of miscegenation. This is the root of […]
[…] 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 […]
Policing (a) and the miners 3 page overview in Labour Research (September) Officers being sent straight from training school (Guardian 20 November) Police installing alarms in homes of (some) working miners. (Guardian 27 November) Police officers being charged a ‘fee’ of a bottle of whisky to get on lucrative picket duty. (Daily Telegraph 25 October) … Read more
Richard J. Aldrich London: John Murray, 2001, £25 Another huge book, 645 pages of text and 70 pages of index, bibliographies and notes. How do you review something this size? I simply don’t know. Short of doing a London Review of Books-sized job and working through it chapter by chapter, all I can really … Read more
Nigel West London: Greenhill Books, 2006, £25, h/b The books of ‘West’ that I have read all have the same problem: he tells you that some of the material comes from past or present intelligence officers and hints that in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for … Read more
[…] the role that McCarry had while he was in the CIA.) McCarry presents a fairly positive picture of CIA people and activities (he was obviously on the liberal wing of the agency) and to judge by the acknowledgement by Alexander Haig to McCarry in the front of Haig’s memoire Caveat (1983) for assistance with […]
The assassinations of the sixties JFK Farewell America On the site of The Coalition On Political Assassinations(1) is a very interesting essay by William Turner, ‘RFK, Charles de Gaulle and the Farewell America plot’, about the events leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia … Read more
