[PDF file]: […] harbour at Larne, north of Belfast, owned by the Smiley family. (p. 2) While his grandfather played an important part in helping organise Unionist resistance against the Liberal government, his father, a cavalry officer, was actively involved in the ‘Curragh Mutiny’ in March 1914. David Smiley was born in April 1916, into a life […]
[PDF file]: […] The reason for this absolutely ferocious assault was that Labour under Kinnock had not yet embraced Thatcherism, was still recognisably a social democratic rather than a neo- liberal party, might have taken a look at the question of media ownership and might not have keep the unions hobbled. Blair was to change all this. […]
[…] left . . . The book was The State To Come by Will Hutton, a cheerleader for Blair and New Labour, who predicted ‘a strange rebirth of liberal England’, with greater public spending paid for by higher taxes on the rich, strengthened unions, a closer engagement with Europe beginning with an immediate process to […]
[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]
[PDF file]: […] of the party. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]
[PDF file]: […] brother Michael is a board member and Chief Energy Advisor. Also on the team as a board member is Vicky Price, former wife of Chris Huhne, former Liberal Democrat MP and energy and climate change Cabinet Minister. () In news reports of McWilliams’ crack cocaine ‘fall from grace’ he is often referred to as […]
