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Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt
[PDF file]: […] the interests of transparency let me make it clear that I know Chris Williamson. That came about as a result of seeking to work voluntarily in a Tory marginal constituency in the 2017 general election. I left messages with Labour organisers in the nearest North London one to my safe Labour one, but it […]
View from the Bridge
[…] three cheers for words in favour of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was […]
The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire
[PDF file]: The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold S tory James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire London: Gibson Square, £12.99, p/b T he Conservative Party had already lost the Rochester and Strood by-election in the hours before its former director of communications left prison early on the morning of 21 November. Whether the timing of Andy Coulson’s release […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] an early recruit to the BAP at the same time as Naughtie and Peter (now Lord) Mandelson.8 The new BBC trust chair, Rona Fairhead, is a close Tory friend of Chancellor George Osborne. Lord Stevenson, a key figure in the BAP network and in the 2008 banking collapse, appointed Fairhead to her first senior […]
Political life in Britain
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
[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 […]
The view from the bridge
[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 […]