Jock Given

Jock Given reviews ‘Fatal Attraction: Reflections on the alliance with the United States’ by Bruce Grant and ‘How to Kill a Country: Australia’s devastating trade deal with the United States’ by Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews

December 2004–January 2005, no. 267 • 01 December 2004

‘Since the end of the Cold War, foreign policy has become economic policy.’ It was March 1999 when I put this cliché du jour to a British bureaucrat handling policy about cultural industries and trade agreements. The World Trade Organisation was young, the New Economy was everywhere, the NASDAQ still had 3000 points to rise. But we were walking across Trafalgar Square, Nelson was watching and ... (read more)

Jock Given reviews 'Treason on the Airwaves' by Judith Keene

July-August 2009, no. 313 • 01 July 2009

‘It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,’ declared Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament in April 1653. ‘Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government … In the name of God, go!’ Leo Amery, a Conservative backbencher, brought Cromwell’s final six words into the House of Commons on 7 May 1940. He was unsure whether he would use them in the debat ... (read more)