Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show Scott Newton Zachary Taylor’s quite excellent recent biography of the economist J. M. Keynes1 makes a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after […]
Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]
[PDF file]: […] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]
[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]
[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]
[PDF file]: […] Farage and then by pro-Brexit Tories. Creagh’s pre-2019 near-neighbour in Don Valley, Caroline Flint, had seen the writing on the wall, but her efforts to support a Theresa May ‘soft Brexit deal’ came too late to save her. She tells Payne: ‘We failed to understand people’s concerns about Europe and about immigration. They voiced their […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The further adventures of Boris Johnson By the time you read this, the thrilling event that was ‘Boris on Brexit, Live’ 1 will have taken place. This Daily Telegraph event was due to happen on 26 March 2019. It is officially described thus: ‘Three days before […]
[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]
[PDF file]: […] 3 also reminds us, was the co-founder and vice-chairman of Cambridge Analytica. He has also claimed to have occasionally advised Boris Johnson on how to bring down Theresa May – and, presumably, on how to play the culture wars card. This is followed by another essential chapter, ‘Politics, Privatised’, where he looks at those billionaires […]
[PDF file]: […] the European Union.8 The author describes the many efforts to deal with this problem in the frenzied Commons atmosphere after the 2017 General Election. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May was seeking a solution to maintain her occupation of No 10 Downing Street and, like Corbyn, the leadership of or 3 or 4 or or 5 […]
