Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity (London: Aurum Press, 2011) p. 261 2 nothing when measured against both his greatness and the country’s urgent need for a new Churchill. Bower acknowledges Johnson’s personal conduct; indeed is often quite brutal about it. The man certainly is an irresponsible liar who does not believe that any […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must * new * Naming no names: ‘HN58’ and the Undercover Policing Inquiry As has been referred to by Robin Ramsay in this issue’s View from the Bridge, the inquiry into undercover policing in the United Kingdom continues to produce interesting titbits. One such that I […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them […]

View from Bridge 87

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

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[PDF file]: Trump, the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies […]

The strange loves of Mariella

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[PDF file]: […] years her senior, and he introduced her to the swinger sexual underworld of the time. The marriage was ‘open’ and in that same year she went to New York at the behest of a small-time film and TV producer, Harry Alan Towers, ostensibly to pursue a modelling career but in reality, to work as […]

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[…] (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996) p. 295. 1 1 had one nagging doubt: when they had discussed who, after Jesus, was the most interesting man in the New Testament, Blair nominated Pontius Pilate. Halsey was appalled and insisted that surely it must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the […]

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