[PDF file]: […] you can take them apart. SOMERSETT: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have to know where we are at. Because you know that will be a real shake if they do that. MILTEER: They wouldn’t leave any stone unturned there, no way. They will pick somebody up within hours afterwards, if anything like […]
[…] forces from Vietnam.33 The end of the world as we know it John Lanchester was given access to the Guardian’s collection of the Snowden NSA/GCHQ documents in New York and has produced a really excellent account of them and the dangers they imply.3 4 Lanchester made one very striking omission. He wrote this: ‘We […]
[PDF file]: […] particularly interesting read because I am currently embroiled in a lengthy appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK. As a part of the research for my own previous Lobster article ‘The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the “Gladio” networks’,1 I had succeeded in obtaining some documents from the Foreign and […]
[PDF file]: […] to the original hard copy versions as is practicable. It remains just words (no pictures); the subject matter hasn’t changed. What has changed are (a) typeface: Times New Roman does not suit the screen; (b) there is only one column of text instead of two or three (with an infinite amount of space there […]
[…] beneath it. This book shows as well as anything I have read that these notions were simply the views of naive people who had never been near real criminal investigations, nor tried to deal with people from the covert world who were blowing smoke (let alone who might kill you if you found something […]
[PDF file]: […] civil war in which they could play no part; while the much more powerful Americans blundered about. It was this which got the US ambassador killed. Hancock notes that he ‘died as the result of mistakes made on the ground and Washington’s poor assessment of the degree of risk to which they were exposed’. […]
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Griftopia Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Matt Taibbi New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010, $26.00 (US); (around £10 plus p and p from Amazon.co.uk), h/b John Lanchester’s Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay (published as I.O.U. in America) may be the best account […]
[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]
