[…] the succession as a hard liner, boosted by that year’s Orange victory at Drumcree, which he and Paisley had celebrated hand in hand. He defeated the ‘ liberal’ candidate, Ken Maginnis, but it seems clear that he had already decided peace on Unionist terms was possible. The problem was not to be the republicans […]
Terror Within: Terrorism and the Dream of a British RepublicClive Bloom Stroud, Glos.: Sutton, 2007, h/bk, 297 pages, h/b, £20.00 This sets out to provide a narrative describing the range of ‘attempts’ to set up a republic in Britain from the time of the French revolution until the present day. (Although the bulk of … Read more
[PDF file]: […] of the 2005 result ought to have signalled problems: Labour had won a majority with a seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and Respect had grown; and for the second successive election […]
[PDF file]: […] a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after World War One to develop a whole new social philosophy and agenda for economic policy on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive […]
[…] a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after World War One to develop a whole new social philosophy and agenda for economic policy on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘deep political history’ of the US is actually a struggle within the ‘oligarchy’ that rules America; between its ‘two ruling factions’ – identified respectively as the ‘ liberal’ right and ‘conservative’ right (p. 6) – for ‘dominance in the world’s most powerful country’. (p. 1) The competition between these two factions, claims Raso, has […]
[PDF file]: […] political economy has to a greater or lesser degree been replaced by one based on neo-liberalism, or ‘economic liberalism’ (the ability to continue describing the system as ‘liberal’ is important, as I shall argue later). In my view it is in this metamorphosis that we can see the origins of the current crisis. Why […]
[…] Association. Stewart-Smith’s contributions to the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press […]
[…] Association. Stewart-Smith’s contributions to the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press […]
[PDF file]: […] conceptual overlap, and it’s unclear how closely the two are linked. This doesn’t greatly trouble Dugin who is ideologically opposed to big-L Liberalism and is not particularly liberal with a small L either. 3 2 good, anyone in the West who now dissents from big-L Liberalism seems to automatically self-incriminate as preferring a social […]
