Hopefully the CIA won't be using the same tactics as in 1973, the last time an avowed left-wing democrat, somewhat comparable to a 1970's Chilean Lula of Brazil, who they recast as a commun… (View Post)

That Tory manifesto from 2005 again, in the wake of pressure from Hannan and others , in 2004 , to fully "Icelandise" the UK financial sector : "The best guarantee of future prosperity… (View Post)

The general view in the UK media, indeed most European media I think, is that it's still all a bit of a joke. But in fact it isn't. Beyond the situation of moving the investigation of the p… (View Post)

Brown was doing nothing more than accommodating the Tories' starry-eyed techno-financial futurism that began in 1986. None of these ideas had their origins in the Labour tradition, and all those… (View Post)

And which was ofcourse entirely to do with prevailing Conservative intellectual currents of 20 years standing. Brown's hollow shell had nothing to do with, and was not of a piece with, any Labou… (View Post)