[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in […]
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[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]
[PDF file]: Chameleo A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security Robert Guffey London and New York: O/R Books, 2015, £11.00/$18.00, p/b http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/chameleo/ In 1989 Harlan Girard was going round the London media trying to interest them in his story. He got no takers but someone suggested Lobster – then one […]
[PDF file]: […] fuel tanks. (NB The Me 110D, introduced in April 1940 had a range of over 800 miles.) In the diary kept by Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, he notes in his entry for 3 June 1941, following his lunch with Beaverbrook ‘an additional fuel tank was attached to Hess’s plane, and he flew from Germany […]
[PDF file]: […] comes about. We can see this in his rather odd treatment of the evidence he cites as proof of the adverse impact mass 3 4 Glenn Greenwald, ‘New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self Censorship’, The Intercept, 29 April 2016 at . surveillance has on society. Referring to literature, he cites […]
[…] whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, k new what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer 2010 that proclaims itself to be a study of the ‘Visionaries, rebels and […]
[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]
[PDF file]: […] same time extending the scope and intensity of bureaucracy. After a circuitous tour he leaves us with the basis for a theory of bureaucracy. (I never k new I needed one before.) But whenever you hear that the market is superior to bureaucracy, and bureaucrats are held up to ridicule, you will be able […]
JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir Robin Ramsay LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages […]
