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The economic crisis continues
[PDF file]: […] Telegraph 24 May, the UK figure was given as 82.5pc of GDP. Page 17 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 ‘It is as if there has been a silent coup d’état – instead of the taxpayers owning the banks, the banks now seem to own the taxpayers. They have been given access to the present and […]
Misc reviews
Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America
[PDF file]: […] with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out within UK politics by an establishment that regards cleaving to the US as an essential ritual. Was this the first overt change carried out […]
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
[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 […]
Is there a ‘political class’?
[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 […]