This is the speech I came down to London to give.
I have had a fascinating few days catching up on many people. It is an interesting fact that one of the suite of rooms where the great ones gather for their sparkling wine and snacks before and after the Cenotaph ceremony on Remembrance Sunday is literally my old office, from when I was Deputy Head of the Africa Department of the FCO. It has always interested me that the grand people of British society, particularly those born to it, overlook the “little people” and forget they have agency. People like Boris Johnson do not see janitors, cleaners, cooks, drivers and waiting staff as anything but cyphers. They however see him, and I can tell you with certainty that the reason he messed up the Cenotaph ceremony, starting backwards and forward at the wrong time, laying the wreath upside down and generally stumbling around looking like an unmade bed, is that he was drunk. You could smell it off him. He arrived in that condition.
I am working on a longer and more thoughtful piece about the morality of the use of force. I hope to post that tomorrow. Am on the train back to Edinburgh.
Excellent speech. What building is that?
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St Pancras Church, Euston: http://stpancraschurch.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_New_Church
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Not just stumbling drunk laying a wreath at the cenotaph, he also said “”f*** the families of the 7/7 terror attacks”
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/16/boris-johnson-said-f-families-7-7-terror-attacks-9970567/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Even bog standard hypocritical posturing is beyond this fella. Yet he is who the establishment want running the country for the next five years. That is the level of their commitment to Neoliberalism and violence overseas.
As long as he burbles about Getting Brexit Done, people will vote for him. Especially those most harmed by Austerity, who are nevertheless willing to keep in power the very people behind their suffering.
Looks like God just threw a spanner into the wheels of Johnson’s ‘we need stiffer sentences’ narrative in the wake of the London Bridge attack. It transpires one of the ‘heroes’ who ran to someone’s aid (according to the Mail even saved her life) was a murderer on day release. And not just any old murderer but one who strangled a disabled girl last year. Truly bizarre turn of events.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7740259/Murderer-day-release-heroes-rushed-help-London-Bridge-terror-attack.html
You do wonder whether there is some self-skunking/sabotage within these staged events!
Happy St Andrew’s day tomorrow for our compatriots in Scotland.
I just caught a glimpse of the Andrew Marr Show, don’t really watch it myself, and a journalist was saying something like this: The electorate in the North don’t like Johnson, don’t like the conservative policies, and really like Labour policies but cannot bring themselves to vote labour because of Jeremy Corbyn.
This is so laughable and superficial. So nobody really asked these electorate why they don’t like him, despite the fact that he has shown integrity and he has been the main instigator of these policies so much liked. Doesn’t add up.
Marr allowed Johnson to state that Jeremy Corbyn “wants to abolish MI5” on several occasions without challenge. Needless to say, it’s pish. Waiting for the BBC, Fact checking service to correct, but I widnae haud ma breath.
They mean that taxing the super-rich more so as to provide more socialised support for everybody else is tantamount to letting men with long beards and foreign backgrounds knife people and blow them up. The scary thing is that this association can’t exactly be getting laughed out of the room every time they suggest it in a focus group.
This is a very powerful ad by the Tory party, published two hours ago, asking “Should convicted terrorists serve their full sentences?” and showing pictures of Boris Johnson (“Dangerous terrorists should serve their full sentence”) and Jeremy Corbyn (“Not necessarily”). The quote from Corbyn is cited to his appearance on some TV show today called “Sophie Ridge on Sunday”; the one from Johnson, to the Heil, also today. Never mind that the state which has been under Tory administration since 2010 allowed Usman Khan out of prison and, while on licence, to go to London for this event. The Tories are saying it’s all Labour’s fault. They’re saying Labour are soft on terrorism and have held up the proper workings of government by being difficult about Brexit. Labour need to lands some blows very fast (preferably starting within a few hours) or this could lose them the election. Really terrible optics.
I won’t be surprised if Donald Trump when he’s in London tomorrow sings to the same songsheet, interfering in Britain’s internal affairs by encouraging people to vote Tory because Labour don’t want to be tough on terrorism. And if he says oh yes and by the way thanks for agreeing to selling off the NHS, that might make page 17 unless Labour know what they’re doing. Whatever happens, they need a big one.
David Gauke
was Justice Secretary at the time of the very peculiar choice to let Usman khan out early.
He is no longer in the Tory party, so will probably be taking the disapprobation.
Michael (at 13.54)
If Boris Johnson is to be believed there was no ‘choice’ …”convicted terrorists are automatically released on licence half way through their sentence”; he very much placed the emphasis on “automatically”. So he appears to be saying that for terrorists this is not an arbitrary decision based on risk assessment, unlike of course the incarceration of a truth speaker who has no entitlement to early release. Likewise the convicted murderer who helped apprehend Usman Khan was out of prison half way through his sentence. It is obvious that Johnson is trying to hold Labour accountable for the events at Fishmongers Hall based on legislation introduced under their watch many years ago.
But let me get this straight: convicted killers have more rights than non-risk prisoners? How on earth does this work or is Johnson lying yet again?
Further to my post at 16.42, Lord Falconer has explained that under his original judicial sentence Khan would have had to go before the Parole Board half way through his jail term for their assessment as to whether he could be safely released. It was, however, as a direct consequence of a Court of Appeal ruling that the need for Parole Board consideration was removed from the revised judicial sentence. So once again Johnson was talking through his….
The court of justice ruling was that indeterminate sentences were a contravention of the prisoner’s human rights IF the imprisoning government did not provide the prisoner with the means to become safe to be released.
Faced with the prospect of either having to employ sufficient trained staff to ensure that the prisoner had the opportunity to reform, or to simply let them out as if they were prisoners with a non-indeterminate fixed term sentence, Gove decided it would be cheaper to just let them out.
So, it is the fault of the penny-wise pound foolish Austerity Tory Government and their lying apologists.
Labour won’t go in for the kill concerning the Tories’ wholehearted support of terrorism in Libya and Syria, because they’re pussyfooting around the issue of the Zionist cancer. While the Tories have been busy inserting their own people at key nodes with the BBC etc, Jeremy Corbyn was expelling his natural and willing allies from Labour, lest any Jew take offense. Remind me again: if somebody behaves like a born loser, what is the most logical explanation for this?
This is the poison of social media advertising. You get sound bites, stripped of context, and micro targeted at unsophisticated voters, who lack both the will, and the wherewithal, to scrutinize them.
It was yesterday according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Andrew%27s_Day
SA..Thanks for the St Andrews Greetings
Here for you are some happy Scots..Check out girls dressed for summer..in sub zero temps
I Know it’s outrageously OT.. But –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArTwHV0rH78&t=1427s
Thanks Brian
Reminds me of St Andrews nights I enjoyed when working in West Africa. Small but active Scottish community and the night was complete with pipers piping the haggis.
No political expediency can change the simple fact that St Andrews Day = 30th November.
OK the pedants win. I made a mistake. Mea Culpa.
To explain my heinous error, I looked at the cullender on my computer and it said, Monday St Andrews day public holiday in Scotland. But what I did not realise is that this was an extra bank holiday as is the custom when a bank holiday falls on a weekend day. I am sorry if I upset sensitive souls who obviously feel that there is a deep seated conspiracy on my part to shift St Andrew’s day to another date obviously for sinister reasons. I hereby withdraw my wishes of a happy St Andrew’s day on the wrong day.
Didn’t have time yesterday to watch your speech on the cenotaph drunken disrespect incident with a liar, any chance of seeing it again?
Got it its layered, ta.
***** Five Star speech, thank you, Craig, if only Julian could hear it.
Has the BBC shown the real footage of the cenetophe? Maybe Marr should start with it.
Has any channel? I don’t do TV.
Feeling as groggy as Bobo this morn not from booze though – anyone else in Greater London (east north) get the 4 am wake up bang and house rattle from sonic boom of 2 imterceptor fighters launched from Conningsby?
Apparently commercial a/c had temporarily lost comms! Was the Mets statement so went back to sleep at 5.30…
Lol – really nowt to do with potus visit or keeping us all on edge.
I heard that in Islington. Also had Chinooks overhead y’day afternoon.
There was also a Chinook over Borough Market on Thursday lunchtime; which means nothing to me.
Godophin, I saw 5 Apache helicopters, with domes above their blades (radar systems), fly overhead during the summer (Greater London, Kent, area), shortly after Assange was kicked out of the embassy.
Correction: not summer, but not long after Assange was kicked out of the embassy. Another three flew over during the summer/autumn.
Dungroanin, we meet again! I don’t do TV either, only YouTube and movies.
There is no “cenetophe”, only a cenotaph! Footage is here:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/remembrance-sunday-boris-johnson-pictured-20853195 – he seems a bit tipsy; nearly dropped the wreath while laying it:
What is Youtube but a participatory TV service supplied by a US advertising company?
It was an Israeli plane that “lost communications”. The pilot, Steven Giordano, is a founding partner ofJet Test, the company that was moving it. He is also a program manager at Humanitarian Airlift (HLP), a “non-profit organisation” that provides “free” or “at-cost” airlift relief services to “crisis areas worldwide”. Founded after Hurricane Maria in 2017, HLP has airlifted and distributed over 100 tonnes of cargo, airlifted medical teams, and evacuated hundreds of civilians out of remote areas. Reader, how well do we think “humanitarianism” goes with “Israel”? I wonder what Mr Giordano knows about the illegal transport of prisoners of war, or the organ trade?
There was also a very mysterious delay of some minutes during the Cenotaph ceremony immediately before Johnson emerged from the Foreign Office leading the other politicians and dignitaries as the PM is always required to do. Given the very precise timing of these events this was all rather strange and clearly quite unexpected. Indeed over the many years that I have watched it I can’t recall any similar occurrence taking place during the Cenotaph ceremony.
No reason was given as the TV cameras played on an empty doorway for what seemed like an age. David Dimbleby who after many years of commentating on the ceremony is an expert on its protocols and timings seemed to be at a loss as to why Johnson had not appeared and he remained embarrassingly silent.
There could of course be many quite innocent reasons for the unscheduled delay but having seen Johnson’s performance myself your explanation has cleared up that little mystery for me.
It was free drink, don’t want to waste any.
Boris Johnson probably threw up on his coat and then after a lackey came and dressed him with a new one they suddenly noticed there was vomit on his shoes. That’s how he respects the war dead.
Meanwhile it seems like every year that the Tories complain that the Labour leader is sticking two fingers up at the
royal family and the memory of Enoch Powellcountry because he hasn’t marched with his arms at the regulation angle or bowed his head in exactly the right monarchist way.The Mail today is leading with Prince Andrew’s new Apple Watch. As CJ in the DM comments section said, “This is all very important to know but the timing is a deliberate distraction.” Cue 500 downvotes.
Boris Johnson, drunk? Sounds like he is turning into his previous incarnation, Winston Churchill, if he hasn’t already.
BTW his novel “72 Virgins” is being republished in abridged form on Twitter, for anyone with the time to read it.
https://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson
Or if you don’t have the time, here’s a review:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/28/boris-johnson-novel-2004-seventy-two-virgins-racist-misogynistic-homophobic/
A racist, misogynist, homophobic British PM … wooah, it’s forward into the past for Britain!
Johnson’s book get 92 reviews on Amazon, some of them he must have written himself: https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B01FS8FUQ2/ref=acr_dpproductdetail_text?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
He should stick to some hobby that is less malignant.
I wish I hadn’t read these comments about “72 Virgins”, because now I’m having to download Boris Johnson’s documentary “The Dream of Rome”, based on his book of the same name, about the Roman Empire…and the EU. Apparently he calls for Turkey to be admitted to EU membership. I wonder whether he’s an anti-Catholic bigot as his pal Michael Gove is, and as Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t, but it’s Gove that Johnson has been known to go out on the p*ss with.
Johnson says he “thinks about religion a lot”. (That article also shows him holding up a brick with three holes in it at the Tory party conference – an excellent example of the competent choice and use of a prop. Seumas Milne, please take note. Similarly everyone recalls the narwhal tusk from the recent terror attack in London. Jeremy Corbyn could use a picture of the “elephant graph” to illustrate the looting of the world by billionaires. It surely can’t be too difficult for the great minds leading the Labour campaign to come up with a good prop to represent free university education and the abolition of tuition fees?)
Nah, he will get 20-something SPADs to write them as part of the price of getting another job….
Fantastic stuff, about time!
Brave words to say in these troubled times; I listened carefully to all you spoke Mr. Murray – an admirable speech, concise and coherent – unlike most of the ‘talk’ in the ‘House of Nonsense’ as my old grandad called the H of P. If that was tolerated in a company boardroom, most of the shareholders would have thrown the towel in.
I then read Mr. Pilger’s account of his visit to Julian in Belmarsh – what an awful, forbidding place it is.
I am confirmed now in my belief that the prediction by Alfred Noyes, in his book ‘The Edge of the Abyss’ (pub. 1942) has come true: he wrote in the introduction ‘It would be a tragedy if the very thing we are presently fighting against, is being foisted on us under another name’. He was dead right.
When the veils are lifted do not most countries have rogue characteristics?
Indeed and all politicians lie – it is axiomatic.
The UK state puppets go on about human rights and prisoner welfare in the likes of China and Iran, yet 60 doctors have gotten together to write a letter to the Westminster government over serious concerns that illegally imprisoned Julian Assange might die in Belmarsh prison.
Assange whose already served his sentence is being held unjustly. Unfortunately the letter was for the attention of the Home secretary the not so Priti Patel, the usual guff was issued by the Westminster governments spokesperson that, any allegations of ill-treatment of Assange are false.
https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-could-die-prison-before-hearing-60-doctors-letter-2019-11?r=US&IR=T
I always consider the snatching of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy not an arrest but a special rendition, done this time by the UK but as always for the benefit of the US, a criminal regime and utterly lawless.
The Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno sold Assange out for a huge loan from the IMF/World bank controlled by the USA.
That’s why the British state actors and police were allowed to enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London and snatch him.
ecuador was out of control for awhile, now it’s a faithful empire stooge again, they are in the process of getting bolivia sorted out, still having trouble with venezuela though. i don’t think this is going to work too much longer, even in the u.s. backyard. too many people see through it, and the russians and chinese don’t have to toe any lines. that’s the optimist in me talking, though; in the short term it looks dark.
The letter is here.
In respect of when rogue goes too far Peter Hitchens has a relevant piece in Mail today.
Am i the only person to notice the extremely unfortunate video still of Craig doing the Nazi salute?
no, someone mentioned it on the previous page. what’s wrong with it?
It is impossible to be a Nazi salute; there is no comparison. You would have to hold the related political views for the gesture to be called out as such.
Did you not listen to the man’s speech, or are you simply taking something completely out of it’s context in order to misrepresent him?
Mike hand are at 45 degrees from the body and you are mak8ng s… up.
I think the still is fantastic. Actually, better than fantastic. I wish I could put it on a t-shirt.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Like this, do you mean?
https://thesefootballtimes.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/england.jpg
Craig’s remarkable, brutally honest speech appears as well in:
‘Psychologically Tortured’ Assange Victim of British ‘Rogue State’, London Conference Hears – Consortium News — November 30, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/30/psychologically-tortured-assange-victim-of-british-rogue-state-london-conference-hears/
together with other great to-the-point speeches at the same London conference, by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer, former Ecuadorian diplomat Fidel Narvaez, historian and journalist Mark Curtis, clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson, spokesperson for Women Against Rape Lisa Longstaff, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger.
Written version of John Pilger’s moving speech:
Visiting Britain’s Political Prisoner — John Pilger — Consortium News — November 29, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/29/john-pilger-visiting-britains-political-prisoner/
Thanks for that jmg it gives me some flavour of the nature of the concerns since I cannot play videos with my current settings.
In my latest blog piece I mention the honest journalism of people like Julian Assange, John Pilger and Craig Murray and why it is imperative to get Jeremy Corbyn elected. It will bring decency back to the country. With decency Julian Assange would not be suffering as he is though the piece is more general.
https://johnplatinumgoss.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/why-we-need-jeremy-corbyns-labour-government-in-power/
Talk about “freeing the truth”. The BBC persists in headlining Johnson’s blaming of the incident on “early release”. Khan actually was not an early release prisoner as the sentencing system works. At least the “The Observer” got it right today. Khan was originally given an indeterminate sentence from which he would be released when he could convince the parole board that he was no longer a risk. He successfully appealed against that sentence, which was replaced by a fixed term one which results in a person serving half of the – in this case sixteen years including time on remand – before release on license. He was still technically an offender serving the rest of his sentence out of prison. Had he not been shot dead but captured he would have been returned to prison because of the re-offending and no doubt charged with murder / further acts of terrorism and sentenced accordingly. Indeterminate sentencing, which was introduced under Blair’s Labour, was abolished for new offences but not existing ones by the Coalition government under an Act that effectively brought austerity to the criminal justice system through legal aid cuts etc. Had he remained an indeterminate sentence prisoner Khan would arguably still be in prison. Johnson should not be allowed to get away with yet more lies adding to all the others he has been telling..
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A very emotional interview with Julian’s Dad John Shipton.. John is going through hell over all the Evils forced upon his son.. 43 mins –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22iED5VPX4g&feature=share&
“You should be aat home watching the BBC tell you that Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite and here is Boris Johnson eating a scone.”
Perfect.
This Too George –
“This building is like the British Establishment itself—on the surface it is beautiful, solid and harmonious, but inside it is rotten and corrupt to the core,”
Has it been established from what prison Khan was released? Was it Belmarsh?
Or who operated the tag monitoring? Was it outsourced?
@Sundra – Excellent questions, including regarding the tag. I don’t know which prison he was released from. The main prison Learning Together say they operate at seems to be Grendon, which is Cat B, but they also have links at Cat A prisons Whitemoor, Long Lartin and Full Sutton.
Did you clock the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security’s guy at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge, who also advises the Cabinet Office’s “nudge unit”?
What units was Khan being “monitored” and “assisted” by during the 12 months he was out?
Interesting information re prisons.
A quick wikipedia read of those prisons and Whitemoor seems to stand out. Wonder if it’s the prison?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Whitemoor
Did the news state Khan was released a year or so ago. This news article was from Sept 2018 about overcrowding concerns from the local mp – Steve Barclay MP raises concerns about overcrowding at HMP Whitemoor in March less than a week since protest.
https://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/whitemoor-prison-overcrowding-fears-1-5694967
Was lack of funding an issue? Staffing levels etc?
Yes. Whitemoor, near March in Cambridgeshire. Confirmed on Sky News just now. It holds 500 Category A prisoners, 40% of whom are Muslim according to that Wikipedia link.
A quick search and Whitemoor seems to have a lot of issues around violence on staff in the past few years.
Would be interesting to know the re-offend rate of prisoners released from here. Possibly high, given nature of prisons function.
From 2015 – ”HMP Whitemoor inmate kept in segregation for two-and-a-half years, report finds”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/26/hmp-whitemoor-inmate-kept-in-segregation-for-two-and-a-half-years-report-finds
The story isn’t cuts in prisons; it’s the Israeli role in “deradicalising” violent Islamists in Britain. There is no concept of deradicalisation or rehabilitation of Islamists in the Israeli judicial and prison system whatsoever. So WTF is Israel doing in the “deradicalisation” scene in Britain?
It was Belmarsh.
Craig,
Speaking from the Caribbean – I could not agree more.
Think the time has finally come for some reparations mate.
Fair cop?
Courtenay
It would be so good if some supporters of Scottish independence were to propose that an independent state of Scotland, when it receives its 10% of the British state’s financial assets, will formally apologise to, and will pay reparations to, the parts of the world that were meted out degradation and slavery and slaughter by the British Empire. Many people would say hell yeah, here is Scotland becoming a beacon of truth and setting the pace for ethical foreign policy. This is assuming of course that the money went to projects that reduced poverty and improved standards of living for most people and didn’t go mostly to third world crooks or to make hunting areas for the international super-rich.
If Australia can apologise…
N
” Scotland, when it receives its 10% of the British state’s financial assets, ”
Elaborate ..Factually Please
@Brian – I didn’t say Scotland, I said an independent state of Scotland. It’s accepted that an independent state of Scotland would get a proportional chunk of the British state’s financial assets. (They’ll probably need it, to shovel to the bankers for bailing them out in the first week – cf. the gold in Hong Kong in 1997 – minus a commission for the Partei. They’ll also need some kind of currency, if only to pay their civil servants. The Rump British central bank might chuck them some sterling, euros, whatever, even a bit of gold if there’s any left, that they can try to use to back some local paper.) Click here for example. But Scotland is currently part of Britain, so it’s obvious. Exact percentage, what counts as an asset, etc., would be negotiable. I’m sure the SNP leaders can say the country is being sooo ripped off as they call their bankers in the Channel Islands etc.
I think independent Scotland would best run with the Euro, as the Irish Republic does now.
N,
The real difficulty is that the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh were all in on the British Empire game plan.
Not that the racialised system of African slavery did not benefit all and sundry in Europe – it did.
The difficulty is the pain of having to admit same.
Maybe the time has finally come?
Courtenay
Can you explain how it was that the racialised system of slavery benefited the great mass of the rural population in C18th and C19 England?
The benefits to hand loom weavers, and children mining are well chronicled. As to the dividends the Irish cashed in they are world famous. In the 1840s the population began a precipitate decline that was unrelated to the development of tourism
The reality was and is that for the great mass of the working class, rural and urban in the United Kingdom slavery was a socio-economic disaster. As was the capitalist system it nourished.
In a series of articles published between 1902-3 General FD Maurice warned that the British race had deteriorated physically to such an extent that it could no longer produce sufficient soldiers. And that since the Napoleonic wars the physical condition of the average recruit had deteriorated seriously and measurably.
You, quite properly, conclude that the Empire led to enormous amounts of wealth reaching Britain. But you are wrong in assuming that that wealth was distributed among for example London’s millions of casual labourers and small artisans, the agricultural labourers and the factory labourers and miners.
The British textile industry was heavily dependent on cotton from slave worked plantations in the southern states of America. During the American Civil War the Union blockade of Confederate ports, which stopped 90% of these imports, caused great hardship and unemployment in British mill towns until alternative supplies could be sourced from India and Egypt.
The Triangular Trade saw British manufactured goods, including the products of Scottish foundries and workshops, exported to west Africa and exchanged for slaves which were shipped across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the southern US. Slave produced goods like cotton and sugar would then be brought back to the UK.
May I take this opportunity to offer a two-volume paperback title on the Opium Trade, from 2008?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Opium-Traders-Their-Worlds-One/dp/0595467865
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Opium-Traders-Their-Worlds-Two/dp/0595499775
and were the profits of the british textile industry shared equally among the factory owners and the pre teen kids working on the floor, losing fingers? did the workers threaten a strike if the americans closed down the plantations, or the owners got cotton from another source? who chose that supply chain?
Rowan
You link to Amazon. Are there no other suppliers of these volumes. Should we be supporting Amazon, their zero hour contract and their tax evasion?
Kempe
Despite depending on slave grown cotton for their livelihoods, the English cotton mill workers supported Lincoln’s war against the slave owners and the ending of slavery.
It was their masters, the mill owners, and the British capitalist establishment who supported the slave owners in the Anerican Civil War.
I use the search aggregator website http://www.bookfinder.com when looking for new and used books. Refreshingly, I have noticed the independent bookstore Blackwell’s often comes first with regards new books (with free shipping across the EU).
No inexpensive used copies of the books Rowan mentioned are listed, but an alternative to Amazon at the same new price is offered by the Book Depository.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Opium-Traders-Their-Worlds-One-Kienholz/9780595467860?utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=Bookfindercom&a_aid=Bookfinder&utm_term=9780595467860&utm_source=book_link&utm_content=Opium-Traders-and-Their-Worlds-Volume-One&selectCurrency=GBP
Kind regards,
Scott
@Scott – Many thanks for the link to BookFinder.com. My main go-to site is UsedBookSearch.co.uk, which is similarly meta (and worldwide, despite the domain name), but Bookfinder looks just as good, and maybe they each pick up sources the other doesn’t. Also sometimes on specific subjects some kind soul has put 100 or more books as pdfs into a torrent file.
British irony at its best!
Bevin,
Your argument is puerile; you set up an Aunt Sally only to knock it down:-
” The reality was and is that for the great mass of the working class, rural and urban in the United Kingdom slavery was a socio-economic disaster.”
No my point at all and don’t for a moment put words in my mouth.
The reality is that if the GNP increases then the entire nation advances. Compare your examples to my ancestors – enslaved people on my African side – indentured servants on my Indian side. What GNP in comparative terms for the labour delivered through those processes to Her Majesty’s Government.
Bristol – Liverpool etc. and monumental structures and institutions across Britain with compensation – that is my point!
Bevin,
” Can you explain how it was that the racialised system of slavery benefited the great mass of the rural population in C18th and C19 England?”
The broad point is that the GNP grew because of enslaved Africans and the extraction of value from their labour.
The towns, cities, ports, museums, expanded university colleges – all add up to a benefit which down the line the very poor whites you reference – all benefited from.
That is point which you simply don’t get.
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 2009 Findlay and O’Rourke
At its height the Atlantic slave trade occupied about 30% of the British economy so no, it didn’t benefit everyone.
Squeeth,
Nonsense comment!
You need to look at the collective benefit to Britain and the true history of what actually transpired.
For starters – read Dr. Eric Williams ‘Capitalism and slavery’. Then let us debate.
And perhaps Scotland could apologise to itself over the conditions that generations of Scottish working class had to live in – for instance whole families living in rat infested “single ends” in the Gorbals and elsewhere right up to the 1960s with the resultant chronic illness and infant mortality attached. And also we could apologise to ourselves for the appalling working conditions that millions had to endure – in particular the miners, or often forgotten about, our fishers, scores of whom would be lost on a single stormy night.
There are too many people talking about the truth. The Establishment can only cover up this shyte so much.
The establishment has moved on from trying to cover things up and accepts that covering things up in the digital age is basically impossible.
they’ve settled for just using their propaganda organs like the guardian and the new york times, that still seems to work passably well for their purposes.
Which is…worthy of note…given that there are surely no “deradicalisation” schemes in territories occupied by the Zionists whether in 1948 or 1967. They don’t ask “How can we rehabilitate this misguided guy and integrate him into our society as a responsible individual”. So what is the Israeli interest in other countries’ deradicalisation schemes? Hmmm?
Labour in the discussions miss very important open goals:
1. It was the Tories and in particular the ERG that scuppered May’s deal. It was May who sabotaged herself by calling an unnecessary election. It was Boris who pulled his deal in order to call another election. It is amazing that the Tories are blaming everyone else than themselves for delay in Brexit and the loss of credibility of parliament.
2. The cause of the crisis in nursing is in part due to May’s policy of cutting nurseries to nurses.
3. The lie about Labour wrecking the economy when it was due to Ponzi worldwide economy schemes often remains unchallenged.
These are a few but there are more .
All perfectly true.
Trouble is the one’s who’s assets were bailed by us all when the Magic Money Tree did exist are the well off ones doing the interviewing.
They are very grateful for the bail and won’t bite the hand that bailed them.
Technically the one they all call a ‘ Marxist ‘ is set on operating a medium type of Keynesian reform.
Whereas Castro would have took the lot back as a real Marxist, Corbyn is a democratic Socialist (UK type ) and is only getting some of the bailing money back.
It’s pretty obvious that all the one’s screaming about Marxists have never met one and never will.
I know a few self proclaimed Marxists but Castro they are not.
Ironically Castro started off as a Liberal and it was Che Guevara that educated him in Revolution.
Rupert Murdoch and Jacob Rees Mogg have never seen one never mind met one.
They are a rare sight.
Rare as Farage buying a round I think.
search for the socialist party of Great Britain.
Craig on twitter days ago
”Why is this very large item appearing at the head of my twitter page, as though an advertisement, though not marked as such?
Who organised that, and crucially when? Who is paying?
Or is Twitter itself electioneering?”
Search – Corbyn; Johnson/Boris; Labour; Conservative – and compare and contrast what is being fed out positive v negative on each result. Its staggering. Even the search prompts/suggestions are ridiculously biased.
”Or is Twitter itself electioneering?” Can you tweet the 77B guy recently exposed running the middleeast twitter desk and ask who to tweet for the UK desk?
A. Messrs Dominic Cummings and Isaac Levido, the latter a successor to Sir Linton Crosby/ CTF partners.
‘The lobbying firm run by Boris Johnson’s close ally Sir Lynton Crosby has secretly built a network of unbranded “news” pages on Facebook for dozens of clients ranging from the Saudi government to major polluters, a Guardian investigation has found.
In the most complete account yet of CTF Partners’ outlook and strategy, current and former employees of the campaign consultancy have painted a picture of a business that appears to have professionalised online disinformation, taken on a series of controversial clients and faced incidents of misogynistic bullying in its headquarters.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/01/revealed-johnson-allys-firm-secretly-ran-facebook-propaganda-network
heh, speaking of professionalising online disinformation, the guardian should recognize it when it sees it.
BBC sometimes roll out their ‘Reality Check Correspondant’. That me chuckle. Presumably ‘truth’ no longer exists so it’s easier to brainwash the citizens perception of reality. ?
Terrorism, it’s just one of those things, we can’t do anything about it. Same with the environment, poverty, war, Brexit, Assange, Nukes, etc. Sometimes you’ve just got to accept you can’t change things and in doing so accept that you’re pretty much irrelevant.
If you have any meaning and worth in this world, it’s only measurable in terms of the sort of car you drive, your phone, money, and various other trinkets that are realistically possible.
The above is the spirit of the age… and it’s the biggest bunch of crap anybody ever tried to sell you in your life.
If the BBC News was honest, the headlines would go something like this;
– The gap in the election is closing as more and more people realise that what Labour is offering is 1000 times more meaningful and important than any Brexit proposals on offer.
– Special report: The British State, bankers, the rich, and establishment as a whole, are really frightened right now at the thought of a Labour government. The real fear is that they’ll need to pay some tax and stop exploiting our people and the system to the max… Brexit is about selling the NHS and the public sector and making a killing, it has nothing to do with Europe per se.
– In the second of our special reports we look at the impact of Tory rule since 2010. With over 130,000 people dead (at least) as a direct result of “austerity”, would it be accurate to say the last 9 years of Tory rule amounted to a war on ordinary working people. The death toll, 130 thousand, and that’s a conservative estimate, certainly sounds like the sort of numbers you’d associate with a war — indeed, it’s about double the total number of British civilians killed during World War 2.
You’re forgetting about the other hundreds of thousands: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/health-and-social-care-spending-cuts-linked-to-120000-excess-deaths-in-england/
I’m not forgetting anyone. You’re counting the same people twice.
If an invading army had done these things to our poor and disabled they would rightly be called atrocities. And we would also have to wonder just how fascist they are and will become.
“If the BBC News was honest…”
or to paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers:
“If the BBC News told the truth for one day its world would fall apart.”
Bang on, G.
A guy from the Northeast of England tells it how it really is about both the LBC radio station and Boris Johnson. The Tories may have terribly underestimated the intelligence of people in that region and elsewhere in the English North and Midlands. They basically thought “Those idiots love Brexit but they hate us Tories, so we’ll put up some candidates called ‘Brexit’ with a little arrow by their names and so long as the idiots say ‘Yeah – Brexit – great!’ then we’ll get a majority of 50 or 100 and they won’t even realise that voting ‘Brexit’ is helping us.” Think again, Tory scum! Long live the North and the Midlands! Quite a lot of people don’t give a monkey’s whether Britain leaves the EU or stays in it, so long as we get rid of the Tories and put in a proper Labour government.
Education Time.. for the Likes of ‘ N ‘
In the North is Scotland..Which is a Country / Nation ..Don’t be duped by the MSM
If you want more Education about how The Tories.. Or Labour.. Don’t want to let Scotland Free.. Just ask.. The answer of course – RESOURCES = £££££.
If all rape cases would be pursued by the law with the same diligence that is expended on terrorism, society would be a much more happier place for many women.
Can we now expect a terror incident at every election called by a sitting Conservative Government?
Here in the south east of Norwich we are currently looking at some war porn in the air as our boys in blue gyrate their sexy killing machines around each other.
“Can we now expect a terror incident at every election called by a sitting Conservative Government?”
Looks like it, yes, although a nutter stabbing two people is hardly terror. After all, if it had been a white racist who’d stabbed two Asians, it wouldn’t have been, would it?