[PDF file]: […] maturity with a sophisticated knowledge of government-to- government betrayal, many of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what […]
[PDF file]: […] a deep interest in corruption as an international phenomenon, focussing initially on the developing world but then looking closer to home. One result of this is her new book Everybody Knows, an exploration of corruption in the United States and the global connections. Her focus is very much on networks as the key to […]
[PDF file]: […] uncharacteristically, silenced. Then, he began to waffle in his customary fashion. He spoke of NHS investment plans and the appointment of Sir Magdi Yacoub to head a new scholarship scheme. Most of the sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘American financial backing for the project was not actually secured until January 1960 and at the same time Jack Kotschack was appointed General Manager of the planned new station. Gordon McLendon agreed to act as a consultant, strictly on a non-payment basis for fear of jeopardising his ownership of US radio stations, while fellow […]
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[PDF file]: […] Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this new departure. In practice this had amounted to a Parliamentary debate which had ended with a majority of MPs in favour of joining. In the 1974 General […]
[PDF file]: […] the Christian Right, give us some insight into this remarkable phenomenon and its likely consequences. The importance of the Christian Right in the United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W […]
[PDF file]: […] none of that. He had no record of political activity but he was determined not to go to his grave with a murder conviction. His solicitors located new witnesses who were present in the police station on the night of Quinn’s death and a major World in Action programme was made on the case. […]
[PDF file]: […] of Sunak, the Adam Smith Institute and others. The issue clearly is not that the UK doesn’t have any free ports now, or that this is some new device for re-booting the economy. What matters is how many you have, how you regulate them, and That the direction of travel might be to deliberately […]
[PDF file]: […] link, which surfaces in the 1970s, is the key thread here. After the revelations of FBI and CIA criminality in the mid 1970s, Jimmy Carter appointed a new DCIA, James Schlesinger, who tried to get a grip on the CIA and fired a lot of people in the covert operations branch. The result was […]
