Tag Archives: Eric Hobsbawm

Intelligence Matters

Posted on August 1, 2015 by leslie

Intelligence Matters Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50 (2014) Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2015, Notes, Name Index, pp. 239, ISBN 978 0 7190 9079 0. Reviewed by Dr Frank … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, QR Home | Tagged Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove, Eric Hobsbawm, Frank Ellis, Katyn Forest Massacre, Klaus Fuchs, Leon Trotsky, MI5 | Leave a comment

Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Derek Turner

Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged anti-Americanism, Balzan Prize, Communist Party Historians Group, Eric Blair, Eric Hobsbawm, Fergus Downie, George Orwell, Great Leap Forward, Jurgen Habermas, Katyn Forest, Marxist history, Michael Ignatieff, Seymon Frank, Trotsky | 1 Comment

Will Kymlicka and the disappearing Dominion

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Derek Turner

Will Kymlicka and the disappearing Dominion RICARDO DUCHESNE analyzes the highly dubious ‛achievements’ of a fêted academic Karl Mannheim’s concept of free-floating intellectuals engaged in the production of knowledge unconcerned with personal motives and interests has long attracted liberal academics uncomfortable … Continue reading →