[PDF file]: […] them. To award him a knighthood, Thatcher indeed had to overrule ordinary civil servants who objected, perhaps too delicately, that his lifestyle made him an unsuitable candidate. Liberal MP Cyril Smith has – posthumously, like Savile – been exposed as a prolific and sadistic child abuser; and he too was able to keep a […]
[PDF file]: […] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]
[PDF file]: […] which do not necessarily meet, or which do not even derive from the same first principles. If that were the case, then almost all mainstream left and liberal discourse in the US would collapse. Bruce Cumings wrote a long history of the origins of the Korean War3 in which he said clearly that there […]
[…] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]
[PDF file]: […] of how it was that once in power Blair and Brown ‘essentially maintained the old Thatcherite consensus’ and transformed the Labour Party from ‘being a force for liberal social democracy to one of illiberal neo-conservatism’. While there are some telling anecdotes, he is not really successful in explaining the zombiefication of the Labour Party. […]
[PDF file]: […] revealed in the expenses scandal.2 Balls and Miliband have returned to their roots in many ways. Both left Oxford to take US scholarships, returning with the neo liberal, neocon attitudes which outfitted them nicely to be spear carriers in the stage army that became New Labour. Miliband went into the think-tank world before No […]
[PDF file]: […] Manning’s entrapment by Project Vigilant employee Adrian Lamo and Stratfor was ‘sexing-up’ the credibility of an incredible ‘plot’ to assassinate the Saudi 4 Lord Eric Avebury ( Liberal Democrat) to the author, November 2011 5 Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth, ‘Two Year Manhunt led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen’, New […]
[PDF file]: […] properly, London) and elsewhere. If Islamist rebels make life too uncomfortable they can always go and live elsewhere. Indeed, she sees ‘kleptocracy’ as the way that so-called liberal democracies are moving. Altogether a very interesting and thought-provoking book. John Newsinger John Newsinger is a semi-retired academic. A new edition of his British Counterinsurgency is […]
[PDF file]: […] and held by the majority of the population.26 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may and 23 24 The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at […]
[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.58 It makes obvious political sense […]
