[PDF file]: […] drove a large US Buick around London and moved in the same circles as Princess Margaret, and, like her, kept some extremely louche company. He turned his new home, a town house in Lownes Square SW1, into a private gambling club modelled on the Clermont and Les Ambassadeurs. (The property was used in 1968 […]
[…] 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]: […] out by undercover police officers, such as Mark Jenner, from the Special Demonstration Squad, who are now the subject of the Undercover Policing Inquiry.7 A team from New Statesman, including Duncan Campbell, was the first to cover this in depth with ‘The MI5 affair: can the spooks be trusted?’, 5 December 1986 (archived online […]
[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
[PDF file]: […] to enhance his claim to the top Tory job, equally ambitious Starmer was mirroring in his bid to replace Corbyn. Eagleton suggests that the leftover coterie of New Labour Remainers – Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson – and their media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 […]
[PDF file]: […] little background . . . Two years ago I was conducting research on stay-behind networks in post WWII Europe – the infamous ‘Gladio’ networks. I already k new that the Western Union Clandestine Committee (WUCC) had played an important part in the establishment of those networks and I was intrigued to find some WUCC […]
[PDF file]: […] stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, in which he is discussing the new novel by Joan Didion. ‘Preface? What’s with these fucking prefaces? They’re all at it. You know I don’t like the fucking things. I say what I’m […]
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[PDF file]: […] why did they support the EU? In The Sunday Times of 14 June 2009 Bojan Pancevski and Robert Watts had a story which began: ’Glenys Kinnock, the new minister for Europe, has amassed six publicly funded pensions worth £185,000 per year with her husband Neil, the former leader of the Labour party. They have […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] violin and trumpet led to a precocious appetite for avant-garde jazz. Like many other post-war dissidents, it was Radio Luxembourg which pointed the way to an exciting new world beyond the cosy confines of the BBC. “In the late fifties you had the BBC Light Programme or the Home Service, and then there was […]
