I have been scrutinising in some detail the Curry Report, The Security Service: its problems and organisational adjustments 1908-1945 –– the in-house history of MI5 which was written by John Court (‘Jack’) Curry (1887-?), a senior MI5 officer, during 1944-6. In so doing I have solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight. Anthony … Read more
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), […]
[PDF file]: Making America Great Siege: Trump Under Fire Michael Wolff New York: Henry Holt, 2019 The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump Jon Herbert, Trevor McCrisken and Andrew Wroe London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What is To be Done? Mike Cole London: Routledge, 2018 Trump […]
[PDF file]: The Christian Right Revisited John Newsinger The Christian Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the […]
Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only […]
[PDF file]: […] assume that it has no intention of ever surrendering power, and will either rig or overturn any future elections. In that respect, it is worth remembering that Trump was only prevented from overturning the 2020 election result by his ignorance, stupidity and incompetence. The ultimate saving grace was that many in his administration – […]
[…] assume that it has no intention of ever surrendering power, and will either rig or overturn any future elections. In that respect, it is worth remembering that Trump was only prevented from overturning the 2020 election result by his ignorance, stupidity and incompetence. The ultimate saving grace was that many in his administration – […]
[PDF file]: […] were taking home 287 times as much as those workers’. This massive shift in the distribution of wealth, she argues, has culminated in the Presidency of Donald Trump who has ‘put into practice – in barefaced ways unseen in the United States for a century – exactly the type of systemic corruption Americans decry’. […]
[…] hotel shop. All charges were dropped but files released two years later suggest the incident was a deliberate sting on the part of the Colombian secret services.’24 Trump Well, it’s getting complicated, isn’t it? I saw former MI5 officer, whistle-blower and privacy campaigner Annie Machon speaking just after Donald Trump was sworn in. She […]
[PDF file]: […] with an ‘undisclosed’ sum being paid out. And, if any of them are, they’ll likely be timed to coincide with a similarly attention distracting world news event.13 Trump and classified material post-Presidency The fact that Donald Trump mishandled classified material would seem to be beyond doubt. His stashing of documents with national security classification […]
