A link to the entire text of which can be
found below the following introduction:-
More than
ever, I should like this title to speak for itself because it does not paint a flattering
picture of Anglo-American relations vis-à-vis Europe as a whole and the world
in general, but strives to show not merely how but why the United
Kingdom is a problem for Europe and the prospect of greater European
integration.However, all problems tend
to invite solutions, and my own solution to the problem of the UK vis-à-vis
Europe in general but Eire in particular draws upon my ideological legacy as a
self-proclaimed Social Theocrat who, like the French philosopher Michel
Foucault, is not only ranged against an overly Social Democratic 'take' on
progress, but has an alternative path to offer which owes a lot more to
European tradition than ever it does to the long-standing opponents of that
tradition, who would be among the last peoples, as things stand, to either
understand or be able to tread this new path which, as far as I’m concerned, is
the path to universal harmony and therefore of an end to national divisions. –
John O’Loughlin.
John James O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was
brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to
Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools
in Aldershot, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his grandmother,
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination
from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an
assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education)
and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education),
including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two
short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square,
where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill
Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including
ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief
spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he
has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976),
Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations
(1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9),
and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin
is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.
