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Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)
[PDF file]: […] other way round. The existence of a buoyant and successful industrial and trading sector provides for a successful financial services and insurance sector. Only since the Thatcherite/neo liberal indifference to deindustrialization, the focus on the service economy, especially financial services, and the absence of efforts to keep up in health and public services, has […]
AFRICOM, NATO and the EU
[PDF file]: […] has to have ‘perceptions of moral legitimacy’). The assault on Mali marked the fourth act of aggression – the supreme international crime – committed by Britain’s Tory- Liberal government. The first was the assault on Libya in 2011; the second was the covert deployment of forces in Syria in 2011; the third was the […]
The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale
[PDF file]: […] fell apart. Its footnotes were so extensive and dense that someone produced and circulated an index to them. 5 Islamic terrorism.6 Bale describes himself as ‘a classical liberal, a radical individualist, an unabashed secularist, a member of the anti-PC and anti-totalitarian left, and a counter-cultural rebel’.7 What it means in practise is that he […]
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
[PDF file]: […] had reanimated COINTELPRO ‘to prevent militant Black Nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability’. The Tate-Polanski house on Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘ liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo […]
In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
[PDF file]: […] play; and a different public opinion from Britain’s, whose once proud popular anti-spy tradition seems to have evaporated almost entirely. If the US can exercise a more liberal influence on Britain here, it will be an interesting twist in the long history of their ‘special’ intelligence relationship. Otherwise – and this seems an extraordinary […]
92 Bridge copy
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* Google AI Looking for my review of Brian Crozier’s memoir in Lobster, I asked Google (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + […]
States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl
[PDF file]: […] Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (emphasis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the more vague ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, to which many governments could […]
Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded
[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]