[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
[PDF file]: […] Meaning of David Cameron Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, £14.99 Tom Easton It feels unfair not to give more space to reviewing these four titles – all serious, […]
[PDF file]: […] Meaning of David Cameron Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, £14.99 Tom Easton It feels unfair not to give more space to reviewing these four titles – all serious, […]
[PDF file]: The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ Tom Griffin, Hilary Aked, David Miller and Sarah Marusek Spinwatch Public Interest Investigations, 2015 PDF version: http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/more/item/5777new-report-on-the-henry-jackson-society Perhaps it’s some mark of the state of British politics that Michael Gove, the British Lord Chancellor and Justice […]
[…] formal requirement of entry, that there will be no short-cuts for sterling, was reaffirmed by Wim Duesenberg, Head of the European Central Bank in January.(6) In ‘ liberal economics’ a stable relationship with the euro will be accomplished by using the interest rate. If the value of the pound falls beneath the agreed level […]
[…] BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BY IZVESTIYA (LE MONDE 22.12.68) *RELATED TO LORD BIRKENHEAD (FREDERICK WINSTON FURNEAUX SMITH) MARRIED TO HON SHEILA BERRY BESSELL, PETER JOSEPH B 24.8.21 REFORM, NATIONAL LIBERAL 1943-45 LECTURER TO HM FORCES MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 1956-60 LIBERAL EXEC. CONTESTED ELECTIONS 1964 LIBERAL MP 1967 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION TO S VIETNAM 1967-68 NATIONAL PRES BROTHERHOOD […]
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed account […]
[…] rational attempt by the Chamberlain wing of the Tory Party to rejig the post-Versailles world in a way which would keep Germany a member of the international, liberal (economically liberal) world. ‘Between 1921 and 1940 the dominant alliance in Britain was founded on a coalition between a ruling élite centred on the Treasury, the […]
“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more
[…] Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and the Heath wing of the Tories. And it wasn’t just MI5 doing it, either.(1) It did contain two significant new pieces of information. The […]
