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A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner
[PDF file]: […] game to remember victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011. The state ideology and the folk religion sometimes overlapped subconsciously in the public mind, as in this splendid vignette from Mr Turner from shortly after the 1997 election : ‘Giles Radice was surprised to be visited at his constituency surgery […]
Debunking the Myth of America’s Poodle: Great Britain Wants War by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] lot of research and was about to produce a report on how to rein in the City and support the domestic manufacturing economy, when Kinnock changed his mind in 1988, took the first steps towards accepting that there was no alternative to the established City-dominated economic system, and ignored the committee’s work. With the […]
Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America
[PDF file]: […] behest of the US and their local supporters? Have there been others? The general election of 1970 that resulted in a surprise Wilson defeat inevitably comes to mind. The US – and many within the UK’s intelligence and military – wanted Wilson out in 1970. The election that year was characterised by an extensive […]
The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants
[PDF file]: […] ‘Britain could supply the expertise of the City of London banking sector to drive reforms and attract private capital to financing the clean energy transition.’15 Bearing in mind Mark Lowcock’s remarks above, how likely is it that the UK government will be able to deliver a good or even decent job at turning vastly […]