[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in […]
[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside S tory of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by […]
[PDF file]: […] (London: Verso, 2010); Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 and Scott Newton The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic His tory (London: Routledge, 2017); Barnett’s introduction to the 2021 edition of Nairn’s Break-Up of Britain and P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism 1688-2015, 3rd […]
[PDF file]: […] just write stupid shit. Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘JFK: a death that sparked a thousand conspiracies’1 is a classic example. Sandbrook is a popular writer of recent British his tory but he knows nothing at all about the Kennedy assassination. And there’s the point: he doesn’t think he needs to know anything before rehashing the lone […]
[PDF file]: […] with ‘***’. Sneaky, very sneaky. I have already mentioned the factual errors within the report but I should also point out that it appears to be contradic tory. Paragraph 2 has this on the Russian state: ‘By contrast, it has a small population compared with the West; a lack of both reliable partners and […]
[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]
[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]
[PDF file]: […] a major British political party suggested opposing the City of London. My treatment in issue 62 was a sketch. Here is some more detail. The back s tory Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 […]
[PDF file]: […] spirit and energy this summer, Peter Oborne’s ambitious new book could help top up your political Vitamin D. For in its telling of some of the his tory of Britain, France and the United States in relation to Islam, it reminds us why the struggle for principle and truth in the Labour movement is […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement […]
