[PDF file]: […] the population on the streets demanding their rights . ‘the highest per capita involvement in any of the protests during the Arab Spring’.8 This peaceful call for liberal reforms was brutally repressed by the regime, supported by a GCC 9 intervention force dominated by the Saudis. The GCC contingent, many of whom had been […]
[PDF file]: […] prime minister his attitudes may also be those of the rest of the Russian leadership. Centrally they are: an unselfconscious patriotism which is now rare in Western liberal democracies, and shame about the last century of Russian history. With the exception of the Great Patriotic War, everything since 1917 is written off as a […]
[PDF file]: […] published in 2018. Here he continued his assault on Obama, bitterly complaining about the great majority of American Jews supporting the man by selfishly putting their ‘ liberal ideology and knee-jerk rejection of Republicans’ before their ‘attachment to Israel’. To their shame, they have embraced ‘a very misguided, selfdestructive version of bleeding-heart liberalism’. Obama’s […]
[PDF file]: […] may have allowed the C&CC changes – apparently without understanding what they implied – but when push came to shove, politics (and prime ministerial power) prevailed over liberal orthodoxy; and Heath refused to allow the rates to rise as far and as fast as the Bank of England wanted.45 The result was the worst […]
[PDF file]: […] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]
[PDF file]: […] be taken seriously. In the end, the Red Scare motif comes out on top. For those who are only familiar with the past forty years of neo- liberal Britain, with the country being quite openly and unashamedly run for the benefit of the rich and super rich, he sets out to remind his readers […]
[…] out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity, as victims or as perpetrators.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] become a ‘leading shareholder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps’. (pp. 15-16, 53) All very interesting, as they say!3 But back to Musk. He started out as a liberal, supporting LGBTQ rights, in 2018 telling potential TESLA customers that if they did not like it they should In March 2018, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi […]
[PDF file]: […] actually have been relatively well off at the time. 4 Banks was notably less sectarian than Livingstone and Corbyn and, after starting his political life in the Liberal Party circa 1960, had contested East Grinstead for Labour in the 1970 general election. 5 Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler ran the Social Democratic Alliance, a […]
[PDF file]: […] – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided themselves on the building of the decent society. They flocked to state-subsided films like Ken […]
