[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 […]
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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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[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] are distorted as a result, in some cases badly so.’ (p. 188) Stiglitz’s solution to the present economic disaster is, God help us, global regulation: ‘If a new global reserve system, and, more broadly, new frameworks for governing the global economic system, can be created, that would be one of the few silver linings […]
[PDF file]: […] German to hold any kind of privileged position. Despite this, the book received glowing reviews from the Times Literary Supplement, Public Opinion, the Illustrated London News, the New English Weekly, the Fortnightly Review, St. Martin’s Review, the Church of England Newspaper, the Catholic Herald, and a series of provincial newspapers. It was, however, criticised […]
[PDF file]: […] to change things and you want to get listened to, that’s the place to be.’ 1 On the other hand, Norman Lamont wrote: ‘Margaret Thatcher certainly k new when to disregard market research. In the 1980s, opinion polls regularly showed that voters preferred public spending to tax cuts. Mrs Thatcher insisted on cutting income […]
[PDF file]: […] of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten Days That Saved The West, a […]
