The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] other words. Archegos has gone bust, owing various banks $10 billion. So far, so rather routine. The author of a piece in the Telegraph described what Archegos’ boss Bill Hwang had been doing – his ‘trading strategy’. ‘Hwang was mostly trading through total return swaps. As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They […]

Whose Prospect?

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[PDF file]: […] Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

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[PDF file]: […] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] of his sexual conquests, Campbell had been introduced by singer Frank Sinatra. She was a friend of Sinatra’s Mafia associate John Roselli and mistress to Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana. In other words, President Kennedy was unwittingly sharing a consort with one of America’s top underworld leaders and a key target of his 40 […]

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[…] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

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[PDF file]: […] was himself the victim of various smears, plots and coup proposals in which MI5 officers were intimately involved. Wilson was convinced that the South African secret service, BOSS, was also involved. He was right: they were allowed to operate in Britain without any interference at this time because, as one of their (unnamed) agents […]

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.68 IRD Rory Cormac is […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

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[PDF file]: […] Lisburn, Peter Broderick, is quoted as saying that he had seen the document and approved it for release. ‘This week, for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at […]

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[…] more than £850,000 since the election – 49 Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 50 18 including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.51 IRD Rory Cormac is […]

Inside the Trump Administration

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[PDF file]: […] have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell was busy waging ‘a behind-the-scenes war against the Boss’ and Trump was absolutely right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report […]

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