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The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of images of children. This was displayed on Google News and, for a time, so was this comment: Guy Bailey Shared publicly – Yesterday 11:29 PM #David Cameron For the benefit of my non-media savvy friends – this is why the Daily Mail went after Harriet Harman & co. To provide cover for a […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] strange address lists. I received an e-mail shot from Will Davies, co-founder of aspect.co.uk, ‘London’s leading property maintenance and refurbishment company’. In this Davies complains that: ‘David Cameron is more suited to public relations than being prime minister. He’s constantly spinning the facts and not dealing with the basic problems. Take the total inability […]

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Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

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"Fritz gives a critique of misuse of the US military, done mainly (he says) on Israel's behalf, by the neocons of the early 2000s. The name that recurs most is the relatively obscure Doug Feith."

Robin Ramsay reviews Dennis Fritz's "Deadly Betrayal"

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"A wonderful German word, Verschlimmbesserung, means to make things worse while trying to improve them. Those in charge of the British state provided a spectacular example of this."

Robin Ramsay reviews "To Catch a Spy" by Tim Tate (@TimTateBooks)

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