[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]
[…] just giving away part of the power of the state which NuLab were supposed to be trying to articulate in the interests of the British people (never mind the less well off/disadvantage/deprived/ poor/working class – pick a term). Such privatisation speaks of extremely low self-esteem: for we – the state and politicians – are […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *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 […]
[PDF file]: What just happened Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze London: Allen Lane, 2018, h/b, £30.00 Robin Ramsay I once heard a history professor describe another history professor I knew as ‘a very good, old-fashioned narrative historian’. I wasn’t entirely sure what he meant but I got the pejorative message. […]
[PDF file]: […] but a man laying down a trail we were supposed to follow….The man’s task appears to have been to make himself unforgettable.’ Other puzzling questions come to mind. Are we to think that the US government simulation of a domestic bioterror attack in June 2001 that blamed Saddam Hussein for sourcing the toxic bacteria […]
[PDF file]: […] the powers-that-be. According to Greenwald’s somewhat hysterical formulation, the citizen understands that if they ‘. . . pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]
