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Editorial ,
May
2008
May Day! May Day!
It was hoped that the Brown succession would bring the Labour Party back to a Labour orientation in social affairs. Hope springs eternal. And perhaps the less ground there is for it, the more hopefully it springs.In the case of the Brown succession there was no visible ground for it. It was as Chancellor that he doubled the income tax rate on the lowest, and prepared for the measure to come into effect during his first year as Prime ...
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David Morrison ,
April
2008
Israel is a rogue state
Israel is a rogue state
which is violating over 30 UN Security Council resolutionsIsrael is a rogue state. It is violating over 30 UN Security Council resolutions, dating back to 1968, resolutions that require action by Israel and Israel alone [1]. That very important fact is entirely absent from reporting on Palestine by the British and Irish media. If any other state in this world were guilty of such persistent refusal to obey the ...
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Editorial ,
April
2008
Bullock to all that
The white working class in Britain feels \"unrepresented\", according to a recent opinion poll. It feels alienated. But what is it alienated from? From itself, if democracy means anything. The white working class has long been the biggest component of British society. The Government is elected by universal franchise. The ancient party division of Liberal and Tory gave way 90 years ago to the party division of Labour and Tory. Ever ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
April
2008
A Choice Of Inevitable Futures
Gwydion M. Williams looks at Burnham\\\'s Managerial Revolution and Aldous Huxley\\\'s Brave New World
Revolutionary politics is politics that changes the definition of the normal. Before and after a successful revolution, people will be equally convinced that certain things are normal and even inevitable. But they won\\\'t be the same things, not unless the revolution has failed. Looked at from the viewpoint, European Leninism was not at ...
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Sean McGouran ,
April
2008
The Black and the Red
Composer of the Week Radio3, (broadcast since the mid-1940s) might not seem a major ideological indicator for the BBC. But it is, in its own wee way. Any dealings composers\' may have with the USSR\'s authorities (especially in the \'Stalin-period\') are raked over for ideological impurities. Shostakovitch (currently replacing Tchaikovsky as a guaranteed hall-filler) has had every note of his music, (and his words written and conversational), ...
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Tom Doherty ,
April
2008
Review : Lynsey Hanley: Estates, an intimate history, Granta Books, 2007
Lynsey Hanley could win the prize of Brummie of the Year 2007 if it existed. A woman brought up on a council estate mixes her personal experience with a brief, anecdotal, history of council housing. Very favourably reviewed, not least in the Guardian: no surprise then that she is now a Guardian columnist. That suits her: a fluent writer, with some passion, but politically confused. Here\'s some of that passion:\"Broadly, there are two public ...
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David Morrison ,
March
2008
The British Government runs scared of Israel
On 18 February 2008, the British Government was forced to release a draft dossier on Iraq’s so-called “weapons of mass destruction” under the Freedom of Information Act. But it succeeded in persuading a Freedom of Information Tribunal to allow a handwritten reference to Israel in the margin of the document to be suppressed.The Foreign Office sought this redaction because the person who wrote “Israel” in the margin of the document was ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
March
2008
I'll do it my way, you'll do it my way
Gwydion M. Williams looks at Foreign Secretary David Miliband\'s call for global imitation of the West\'s post-industrial model of parliamentary democracy.In his speech at the Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture at St Hugh\'s College at Oxford, Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared it was Britain\'s mission to tell the rest of the world how it should live. States all round the world are to be required to engage in a kind of bloodless civil war ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
March
2008
Miliband says do it our way
Foreign Secretary David Miliband: The Democratic Imperative
FCO, London, 2/12/2008 In a speech at the Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture at St Hugh\'s College at Oxford, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said:\"The checks and balances of human rights and democratic governance are important for the security and development of any society: from established systems like ours to the new democracies of Eastern Europe and Africa to the emerging ...
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Sean McGouran ,
March
2008
FAREWELL FIDEL or Don't mention the War (in Angola)
Fidel Castro\'s retirement was greeted with a mean-minded chorus in the \'compact\' press. (The British press, that is, the American press seems generally to have been more guarded in its handling of the matter - once bitten?). Presumably the compacts had rather hoped that the survivor of hundreds of assassination attempts (few of them by actual Cubans) would eventually \'get his\'. Or go the way of other Communist tyrants, and be killed by a ...
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