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View from the bridge
[…] 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.22 It makes obvious political sense […]
Still thinking about Dallas
[PDF file]: […] that the by then divorced Mary Meyer became one of JFK’s sexual partners in the 1960s, may have increased Meyer’s animus.24 Despite having ended WW2 as a liberal internationalist, Meyer became an obsessive, even paranoid anti-communist and may have persuaded himself that JFK was a threat to the Republic.25 In his hand-written sketch of […]
The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants
[PDF file]: […] Adam 13 ‘DfID’s rise and fall provides lessons for government departments’ . 14 or 15 or 5 Smith International Ltd. (ASI), a spin-off from the eponymous neo- Liberal institute. A report on the website Publish What You Fund contains an analysis of how ASI spends its income. This reveals (for a period it doesn’t […]
When Will We Ever Learn? Lessons from the global financial crisis
[PDF file]: […] New Zealand. Contrary to the expectations of many of us that the global financial crisis would be seen as a conclusive judgement on the failures of neo- liberal doctrine, it is the Right that seems to have emerged, for the time being at least, unscathed and emboldened by the failure of their policies. It […]
Kelly Bond 007 essay
[…] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]
View from
[…] Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner
[PDF file]: […] ever win?” Much the talk in political circles concerned the question of whether Britain might have become a oneparty state, along the lines of Japan, where the Liberal Democratic Party had been in power since 1955.’ There used to be a wisecrack along the lines of there having doubtless been an international summit to […]
The strange loves of Mariella
[PDF file]: […] and made to perform as a slave. His identity was long a mystery until Hod suggested it was the film director Anthony Asquith,2 the son of the Liberal Prime Minister. But ‘A writer of my acquaintance told me he thought not’ continues Pizzichini. So, who was this slave? Our author doesn’t bother to hang […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan
[PDF file]: […] first two chapters.3 Nixon believed that papers about those events leading up the 1968 election were held in the Brookings Institute in Washington, a bastion of (relatively) liberal thinking on foreign affairs. Nixon wanted Brookings burgled and the papers stolen. Nixon set the tone for ‘the plumbers’, the off-the-books Author interview at or . […]