[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 […]
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[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]: […] a lucrative profession this can be. (Ms Barnwell is said to earn upward of $10,000 a month 1 I suspect this orignated with a National Enquirer s tory in January that claimed she only had six months to live. 2 There’s a decent round-up of this supernova of speculation at . 3 for appearances.) […]
[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Conspiracies and cover-ups T he past year has not been an easy one for those who view his tory as just one bumbling cock-up after another. The Hillsborough inquiry1 revealed a co-ordinated effort by a large number of public servants not only to deny justice to the families and friends of […]
[PDF file]: […] can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky at or . 2 3 He is profiled at . and employment . . . .’ (p. 109) His explana tory comments are these: ‘Her government’s economic and exchange rate policies may have brought down inflation, but they took no prisoners as export orders dried up and […]
[PDF file]: […] subsequent behaviour of Johnson (and Dominic Cummings), it is easy to forget that there are only 365 Conservative MPs. In fact, so loudly has their 2019 vic tory been proclaimed and so quiet have been the opposition parties since that debacle, an acceptance seems to be abroad that either very little can be done […]
