[…] this bore a remarkable similarity to the government’s statement. The extracts from both reproduced below are from Wellington Pacific Review No 14, in turn taken from the new Australian version of Private Eye, The Eye. Given the number of Australians living in London, copies of The Eye are bound to start being imported. If […]
Parish Notices Thanks for material since the last Lobster to, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Jane Affleck, Anthony Carew, Harry Irwin, Harlan Girard, Steve Wright and John Booth. Corrections I get surprisingly few anonymous or abusive letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review […]
[…] them, with the aim of effecting legal reform to reduce their occurrence. The DVD is £14.95 (individuals; 25% goes to UAI) and it is 2.5 hours long. Notes ‘On no occasion has the Tribunal concluded that there has been a contravention of RIPA or the Human Rights Act 1998’ Report of the Interception […]
[…] ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. It’s got no index, and no sources notes; all too frequently, where Moore does cite another source, a newspaper, for example, he gives no date. Even if it had been adequately documented, this would […]
[…] the case seem stronger. Barker tells us he was a guilty man framed. Did the AB have any effect? Not really: the arrival of the IRA with real bombs, not spectaculars, shunted the AB off into a historical siding. Barker and Christie do their best to find something of value in their actions but […]
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[…] to grind’. This is a gem. In the first place, Fred’s allegations are not ‘entirely uncorroborated’. Right at the beginning of the story Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman checked out much of it. In the second place, since Fred’s book was published, to my knowledge not a line of it has been refuted. […]
[…] a kind of flow diagram – of how to solve the British economic problem and got it into the Tory Party leadership group, then in opposition under new leader Thatcher. The power of the British trade unions was the central problem he saw and he devised a strategy to reduce it. This was a […]
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[…] We only had two alternative ways of sustaining demand and keeping the economy moving forward: one was public spending and the other was consumption But we k new that we were having to stimulate consumer spending; we knew we had pushed it up to levels which couldn’t possibly be sustained into the medium and […]
