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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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[PDF file]: Get In: The Inside S tory of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund London: The Bodley Head, 2025, £25, h/b Colin Challen One of the earlier books seeking to answer the questions of who and what Keir Starmer is and represents was Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

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[PDF file]: . . . and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True S tory of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – […]

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt

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[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 […]

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[…] 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

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[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

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[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 […]

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