[PDF file]: […] in their business dealings generally. They will attempt to insure against losses. The general cost of borrowing money will almost certainly rise as banks become more wary. New investment may become impossible. This is what caused the Asian Crash in the late nineties. Far Eastern companies looked a good bet from their accounts, but […]
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[PDF file]: […] Mossad field officer Olivia Frank published in May 20196 reveals that soon after trading secrets with the British novelist, the Israelis borrowed the plot of le Carré’s new thriller for a 1985 scheme to infiltrate an English woman into a Palestinian bombing team in Germany, at a time when The Little Drummer Girl was […]
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[PDF file]: […] politicians responsible have by and large prospered in retirement; unless, that is, like Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw, their personal venality became a public scandal. Sarah Chayes’ new book, Thieves of State, which recounts her part in the fight against corruption in Afghanistan, will go some way towards remedying this, although I suspect that […]
[…] accidentally documenting for much of its existence. Beckett is a good writer and interviewer. It is mostly the story we know already but approached from some interesting new angles. This is worth your attention. Advertisement Politics and Paranoia Robin Ramsay (Hove: PicNic Publishing) 290 pages, £9.99 ISBN 9780955610547 Twenty years of talks by the […]
[PDF file]: A Thorn in Their Side The Hilda Murrell murder Robert Green with Kate Dewes New Zealand: Rata Books, 2011; 210 pp., index, photographs, p/b, 40 NZ dollars O nce upon a time I used to know something about the Hilda Murrell case. At any rate, a piece about it without an author, therefore by […]
[…] regular columnists is Daniel Finkelstein. Lord Finkelstein, as he is now, has been around the upper reaches of the centre (and latterly the centre–right) of British politics for 40 years and is thus one of the architects of the disastrous mess the UK is in. In his column of 17 April, ‘Truss’s excuse sounds […]
[PDF file]: […] compromised by their readiness to ‘render’ terrorism suspects to Syria for interrogation. In September 2002, the unfortunate Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, was kidnapped during a stopover in New York and flown to Syria where he was ‘allegedly tortured for almost a year but later declared innocent of any terrorist connection’. We can safely remove […]
