uk minister warns about protest votes at eu elections

Two recent polls suggest that the newly formed Brexit Party, headed by pro-Brexit politician Nigel Farage, could win big at both the EU vote and any British general election, at the expense of the Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party. . May had wanted to lead Britain out of the..

hidden torture, false democracy

Tracing the history of these and other related techniques, Rejali argues that most originated with military punishments or with slavery, found their way into the interrogational practices of “the main Western democracies” (Britain, France, and the United States), and—after a period of..

german workers and the birth of the united front

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the majority leaderships of the main socialist parties—in Britain, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary—supported the war efforts of their respective capitalist ruling classes, thus bringing about the collapse of the Socialist or Second..

the growing poverty of political debate

In Great Britain, Brexit has divided the main parties, Conservative and Labour, into three factions that could, time, morph into separate parties. For at least two centuries, Britain's power was based on the stability of its institutions and the ability of its elite to meet..

the wentworth report

With the options thus narrowed, the risks and sacrifices of the “horror,” as Britain’s main business lobbies now publicly describe No Deal, will quickly come into focus, and a bipartisan parliamentary majority will surely converge to block this outcome. … . . . ..

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