[PDF file]: […] Abroad, 1945-51’, writes that ‘The IRD was formed at the Foreign Office as a direct response to increasingly hostile Soviet propaganda in the wake of the communist coup in Prague, the escalating blockade of West Berlin and mounting pressure on Finland.’ Taylor in Michael Dockrill and John W. Young (eds.) 1989. 62 See, for […]
[PDF file]: […] and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section he conflates events of the 1960s with the 1970s. He has a coup being plotted by David Stirling’s GB75 in 1974. For this there is no evidence and he offers none. Stirling was preoccupied by the ‘left threat’ in […]
[PDF file]: […] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]
[…] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]
[…] *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one Thomas Wood which began: I wonder if you might be interested in reviewing a novel I have written which […]
[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]
[…] *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one Thomas Wood which began: I wonder if you might be interested in reviewing a novel I have written which […]
[PDF file]: […] media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been a member of the 2016 Shadow Cabinet ‘chicken coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s […]
[PDF file]: […] just in the sense that it brought about a shift in the British political economy. It also seems to have had some of the qualities of a coup d’état, in that since that time we have been unable to alter the trajectory of the state, economy and society, whose journey to the market order […]
