[PDF file]: […] of stout party Eden, Suez and America Simon Matthews Have you heard the one about the Conservative Prime Minister who is disowned by the right-wing of the Tory Party for not seeing through a bombastic and nationalist policy, and disowned by its left-wing for duplicity and generally ridiculed by the wider public? Forget 2017. […]
[…] killed 28 people in a series of random shootings in Belgium in the 1980s.’1 Although Gladio was originally the name of the Italian network, when this s tory was revealed in the Italian press, Gladio became the shorthand for the entire multinational network. Officially Britain had no Gladio network. Almost nothing has come to […]
[PDF file]: […] the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Robin Ramsay Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
[PDF file]: […] has issued from British manufacturing as the overvalued pound began putting them out of business. This did not deter Brown. He wanted ‘stability’ and ‘an end to Tory boom and bust’ – phrases you must have heard a hundred times a year. But Brown defined ‘stability’ simply as low inflation – currency instability didn’t […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
[PDF file]: […] in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 About the collection he writes: The context of these essays, the cultural his tory of the United States, is also one of a country that has been at war for most of its history. This is a war memoir, but […]
[…] 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 His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
