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Editorial ,
April
2010
Foot and Mouth
Michael Foot saved the Labour Party in the potentially disastrous leadership conflict following the resignation of James Callaghan. He did not save it by his policies, by his administrative drive, or by the force of his personality. He saved it just by being there and agreeing to be Leader when the policy choice lay between Denis Healey and Anthony Wedgewood Benn. The fact that he lost the General Election of 1983 with a Manifesto which was “the ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
April
2010
China's Blue Republic
It is a continuous Western demand that today\'s Chinese People\'s Republic should drop its distinctiveness and copy the Western political system. Those making such demands prefer to ignore what happened the last time it was tried.
Last month I described how the Manchu Dynasty in China made a mess of reform, while a somewhat similar system in Japan succeeded brilliantly.[A] This month I\'ll look at what happened next. China became the ...
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Editorial ,
March
2010
Cameron's Co-ops A Con
Like the neo-con Republican right in the United States, David Cameron has an aversion to big government and large state institutions. Thatcher began the work of dismantling the electricity, gas and rail industries, breaking them up and transferring them to the private sector. And who among us can say, hand on heart, that they have been a shining success? Blair and Brown took this a stage further, developing and extending the Private Finance ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
March
2010
China's First Westernisation
It is a continuous Western demand that today\'s Chinese People\'s Republic should drop its distinctiveness and copy the Western political system. Those making such demands prefer to ignore what happened the last this that was tried.
From the middle of the 19th century, China needed to learn a radically new way of thinking. Maybe this could have been done under a reforming monarchy of the sort that existed in Russia under Peter the Great, ...
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Editorial ,
February
2010
Labour and the Core Vote Strategy.
The New Year opened with two former Ministers, Geoffrey Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, calling for the Parliamentary Labour Party to hold a leadership election. This was widely regarded as an attempted coup against Gordon Brown\'s leadership. In view of the fact that Labour was making some headway against Cameron\'s Tories in the opinion poll, the move was regarded as senseless. It was apparent that Labour MPs did not welcome the initiative and ...
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Fidel Castro Ruz ,
February
2010
Fidel Castro on Haiti: Cuba `sends doctors, not soldiers'
January 23, 2010 -- In my reflection of January 14, two days after the catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighbouring sister nation of Haiti, I wrote: In the field of healthcare and other areas, Cuba –- despite being a poor and blockaded country -– has been cooperating with the Haitian people for many years. Around 400 doctors and healthcare experts are offering their services free of charge to the Haitian people. Our doctors are ...
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Victor Grossman ,
February
2010
OSKAR LAFONTAINE AND THE TROUBLED LEFT
While German politicians stared at the calendar, wondering nervously what the May 9th elections will bring in the biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, with its 18 million people, media attention suddenly switched to a personal drama within the party called Die Linke (The Left). A few years ago this party or its predecessors were getting laughed off the political map. But what is happening today in that party could re-draw the whole map. ...
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David Morrison ,
December
2009
Onward Christian Soldiers
Is Onward Christian Soldiers to be the Conservative slogan on military affairs in the coming general election? That would be consistent with General Sir Richard Dannatt GCB, CBE, MC (retired) assuming the role of Conservative adviser on “defence” and, post election, becoming a “defence” Minister in the Lords.Why do I say that? Because General Dannatt regards the British armed forces as Christian soldiers called upon, by God no doubt, to ...
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David Morrison ,
December
2009
There was an alternative to Operation Cast Lead
Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s military assault against Hamas in Gaza, began on 27 December 2008 and continued until 18 January 2009. During it, more than 1,400 Palestinians, including over 400 women and children, were killed by Israel. 13 Israelis also died, 4 in southern Israel (3 civilians and 1 soldier) by Palestinian rocket and mortar fire out of Gaza and 9 soldiers in Gaza itself, 4 by friendly fire.Israel characterised its action as ...
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Editorial ,
December
2009
Who Really Won The Cold War
The cold war came to an end with the demise of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. The great face off between two competing ideologies had come to an end. With that, the West claimed victory in the name of free market capitalism. The world was their oyster; the way was now open for them to refashion the world in their own image. But the impulsive reflexes of imperial conquest are never buried too far ...
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