Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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[PDF file]: […] at the taxpayers’ expense at the height of a painful recession while some of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) were being jailed for expenses fraud. Imagine the impact of that behaviour on trusting Labour voters where the economic guts of your community have been ripped out, the train line has long […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] of a hijacker in the burning Twin Towers wreckage in which the 9/11 Commission said the black boxes of two aircraft were never found, was jailed for fraud nine years later.28 He was presidentially pardoned by Trump in 202029 after serving Bush as Minister of Interior of Iraq following the 2003 invasion. With Kerik […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of a tiny handful of people employed by the American state who did not accept the official verdict that Oswald dunnit alone. In a recent essay on fraud in the medical evidence he wrote this: the details except I know there were two bodies at Bethesda and at least ten pictures were taken of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of a tiny handful of people employed by the American state who did not accept the official verdict that Oswald dunnit alone. In a recent essay on fraud in the medical evidence he wrote this: The brain images in the official collection show damage that appears generally consistent with a shot from behind, and […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

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[PDF file]: […] 83-84. 2 Guardian 12 May 2009 5 3 and was sentenced to six months in prison on 23 December 2013. Interestingly, the Jewish Chronicle reported that this fraud was not perpetrated for his personal benefit, but was ‘to fund trips to Europe which were connected with his work on antisemitism’!4 What to make of […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

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[PDF file]: […] was known to have had a rival minister in Karzai’s government assassinated! The rigged Presidential election in 2009, which saw Karzai returned after ‘his supporters had committed fraud on an epic scale by stuffing ballot boxes and fixing vote totals’, was a crucial moment. According to the UN, a million votes, one in four […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thrown his reputation away by celebrating Boris Johnson of all people. And this at a time when more and more people are recognising Johnson for the enormous fraud that he is, that nothing he says can be relied upon and that his government is wholly incompetent. We can be confident that once his electoral […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] for discussing the case and labelled conspiracy theorists and liars’.) Days after Caradori’s death, King was acquitted of sexual abuse, but found guilty of a massive financial fraud. One of those who accused King of sexual abuse, Alisha Owen, was later found guilty of perjury and sentenced to 9 to 15 years in prison, […]

The strange loves of Mariella

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[PDF file]: […] and had first-hand experience of the last year or two of Ward’s life as the Profumo Affair unfolded. I followed his postings and thought he was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

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[PDF file]: […] what had gone on were swiftly crushed on government orders: Matrix Churchill’s directors were arrested; Gerald James was hounded and threatened by the police; and the Serious Fraud Office and HM Customs began to raid and threaten companies associated with the project. However not all the Thatcher government secrets disappeared into the black hole […]

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