The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents […]
Friends in high places Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in […]
[PDF file]: […] Which put me in my place. Did my caller have any evidence? None he would share with me. Some of it I recycled through The Rise of New Labour, and some through ‘Well, how did we get here?’ and ‘Thatcher against the City’ in this issue. Storming teacups 2.0 I recently read on Stephen […]
Friends in high places Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in […]
[PDF file]: […] by the Republican soon-to-be president candidate, George W. Bush, as his running mate. Together, the two oilmen would take the Great Game and pipeline politics to a new and dangerous level, one that would forever change the course of American foreign policy in Central Asia and the Middle East and, ironically, slowly erode America’s […]
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[PDF file]: […] the archives and into the public domain. After all, the embarrassment of having one’s errors pointed out is, or should be, outweighed by the exhilaration of making new discoveries. Bossy held to his conviction that ‘the duty of a historian is to tell true stories about the past’. That’s how you do history. Or […]
[…] landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American history and the role in […]
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[PDF file]: […] Planning Council, believing that this would be a better use of his time than working – essentially – as a civil servant in London. To facilitate his new role in 1965 he resigned from Newcastle City Council. Later Smith came to regard this as a miscalculation. It turned out that Brown had little real […]
