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Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
The View from the Bridge
[…] As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They give investors exposure to an underlying asset without having to own it (and therefore appear on the regula tory filings that disclose the biggest holders of publicly-listed shares). The other main benefit is that swaps allow you to leverage up the bet. And here lies […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They give investors exposure to an underlying asset without having to own it (and therefore appear on the regula tory filings that disclose the biggest holders of publicly-listed shares). The other main benefit is that swaps allow you to leverage up the bet. And here lies […]
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot
[PDF file]: Failures of State: The Inside S tory of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot London: Mudlark Harper Collins 2021 £20.00 (h/b) John Booth There are journalists – and then there are journalists. There’s Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who while London Mayor called his £250,000 Daily Telegraph second-job contract ‘chicken feed’.1 […]
The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years
[PDF file]: […] supported Russian suspicions that the British had plotted to lure Hitler into attacking Russia. The book sold well in the USA with the sub-title, The Secret S tory of the Hess Peace Initiative and British Efforts to Strike a Deal With Hitler. Four years later Costello, 52, was found dead in his airline seat […]
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a s tory about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of […]
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[PDF file]: […] one Q and A. Peter: What surprised you most when you were researching the book? Simon: The degree and the shamelessness with which politicians and especially the Tory party were taking money from autocracies, or people with links to autocracies – and then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost […]