[…] some nous and a good sceptical eye has done some serious work on it. In Fortean Studies vol 7, (eds. Ian Simmonds and Melanie Quin; London: John Brown Publishing, 2001) that most persistent of pamphleteers, Kevin McClure, has gone through the literature on the subject in great detail and concludes that the whole thing […]
[…] So the invasion of Iraq was part of a drive to democratise the the Arab world and advance the cause of women in it! Notes 1. Colin Brown, Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice, ‘No 10 admits Hutton cover-up’, The Independent 17 July 2004. 2. A similar process is happening in education policy where, inch […]
[…] King MP (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow), ‘Losers win’, the Guardian, 18 November 2000 15 See, for example, Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (London: Little, Brown, 1997) and Sally Denton and Roger Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America, 1947-2000 (New York: Alfred […]
[…] the supposed links between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.’ And there’s more, ‘Case Closed answers all lingering questions about the assassination.’ Harold Evans, aka Mr Tina Brown, was editor-in-chief of Random House at the time and, according to Posner, Evans himself actually wrote all this hyperbole. What a sad descent for someone who […]
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
[…] No less than one of the creators of New Labour. Ms Hobsbawn, for many years a PR business partner of Sarah Macauley, the wife of Chancellor Gordon Brown, was one of the key figures in promoting the political project now so universally respected for its adherence to transparency, accuracy and straight dealing with journalists. […]
A Bilderberg Press Release I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release before, but this is unmistakably a press release from last year’s Bilderberg meeting.(1) There is the occasional oddity in this, possibly caused by e-mail transmission, which I’ve highlighted, and I’ve arranged the participants by country, rather than alphabetically as in the original. … Read more
[…] 1991. See for example the P.N.L. student paper Fuse issue 167, June 1983, and Searchlight 109, July 1984, pp. 2-3. 22 May 1984, no. 10, p. 1. For a full account see the Report of P.N.L. Committee of Inquiry 1985, chaired by Sheila Brown for the now-defunct Greater London Council, published by Swindon Press, 1985.
[…] the American Federation of Labour (AFL) dismissed the idea that filling people’s bellies would undermine their support for communism. For AFL leaders like Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown, the battle had to be fought overtly and covertly on all fronts: economic, political, cultural. Yet despite labour resistance to the American-led productivity drive across Western […]
[…] and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have to be bought: […]
