[…] we have to wait until now for a detailed account. It is also disappointing that after so long – the bulk of the SDP merged with the Liberal Party in 1987 – its history should be written by two academics who helped found it in the first place. Not that Ivor Crewe and Anthony […]
[…] rightly claims, ‘what had started off as a tactical ploy by the Congress – namely, to position itself on the Left in order to win support for liberal democracy from the European intelligentsia (who, it was supposed, were largely on the Left) – came to be a goal pursued wholly for its own sake.'(3) […]
[…] it gets to the bottom of the phenomenon that is LM, formerly Living Marxism, currently Last Magazine. Confused? Yes they are, but not as confused as the liberal intelligentsia who have been trying to decode what LM means for the past two and a half years. LM is best known for its libel case […]
[…] Round. What is going on is the systematic infiltration and attempted capture of the entire body of international law and regulation by one ideology (that of the liberal West) which has the resources and determination to effect such a revolution. The UN in particular is in danger of becoming little more than the creature […]
[…] Botswana – most of them members of the ANC. Apart from the parcel bomb killing of senior ANC member Ruth First, the car bomb maiming of the liberal South Affiran lawyer Albie Sachs, in Mozambique last year, and the shooting down of the ANC representative in Paris, Mrs Dulcie September in 1987, few of […]
With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ … Read more
[…] written it. Not a further word was heard of the ‘hoax’ story; and the ILP demand for a ‘public enquiry’ was dropped. Michael Meadowcroft was a radical Liberal MP for West Leeds and when the Massiter story appeared in the press he wrote a spirited defence of ‘a personal friend from the early 1970s’. […]
[…] exemplary illustration of the way in which Anglo-American cultural and academic life overlapped with the spheres of intelligence and politics in the post-war world, particularly on the liberal left. At the outbreak of war, through the intercession of fellow philosopher Gilbert Ryle, who had managed to secure a commission in the Welsh Guards, Ayer […]
[…] Because of the horrors of the Vietnam War, I got sucked into politics, working for the nomination of anti-war candidate George McGovern. At the home of wealthy liberal activist and French scholar, Domna Stanton, where I had gone to attend a planning session for the McGovern campaign, I met George Plimpton for the first […]
[…] category – or unwittingly by communist sympathisers with an idealised view of the Soviet Union. Either way, such propaganda is rarely picked up by mainstream conservative and liberal publications in the West which, if anything, tend to gullibly accept and promote the propaganda lines of their own governments. (22) In any event, the literature […]
