Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] market right: elected to Scarborough Town Council in 1950; a couple of failed tilts at Westminster before securing Cleveland in Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’ vic tory in ’59; losing the seat in 1964; returning – in a very close result – as MP for Brighouse and Spenborough in 1970; losing again in […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

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[PDF file]: […] casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/ Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection – but they never found any evidence. This Golitsyn s tory raises the interesting question about what counts as being an informer or an agent. Say that on one 2 Miller was one of a number of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the s tory of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

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[PDF file]: […] and Nepalese.36 The last of the UK PMCs on that US Baghdad embassy list is Control Risks Group. I will not go into detail regarding the his tory of Control Risks here but simply refer the reader to the extensive detail on pages 6 and following of my previous article on PMCs.3 7 Further […]

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