[…] Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli used the crisis to buy the Khedive’s shares in the newly built Suez Canal. In 1876 Egypt was forced to accept a new financial regime, known as ‘Dual Control’. This put control of Egypt’s finances in the hands of British and the French personnel, although the majority were in […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: […]
[…] and the ‘problem’ of agents of influence. (In the 1980s the ‘agents of influence’ must be presumed to be CND.) One of the interesting snippets in the new Bower biography of Dick White (reviewed below) is the claim that such activity used to be in MI5’s brief. This is on page 145: ‘On the […]
[…] Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient […]
[…] technophile US librarians described in Nicholson Baker’s thoroughly-researched and passionate polemic. This is a world in which the archivist of a historical society orders volumes of the New York Times to be fed into a steam-engine of a vintage sawmill; in which the Deputy librarian of Congress purports to demonstrate the terminal brittleness of […]
[…] show that the ‘evidence’ of said biological weapons had been faked to embarrass the Americans; but this ‘evidence’ has since been challenged by two Canadian historians. A new dimension to the story has been added by allegations made in a German book and TV documentary that Frank Olsen, the American army scientist who was […]
[…] The sight of the Rolling Stones arriving in China to perform a government-approved selection of songs coincided with my reading a chapter of Stewart Lansley’s fine new book entitled ‘Only little people pay taxes’. He recounts Bianca Jagger’s 1979 divorce revelation that her former husband was obsessed with avoiding paying taxes. ‘Throughout our […]
[…] similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks to show that Labour, or should we say New Labour has become a slave to the private sector, thus turning its back on its roots. All the well-trodden paths are examined Mittal, Ecclestone, Maxwell, […]
[…] were not named. George pleaded not guilty at Birmingham Crown Court in March and a further hearing was scheduled for April 2004. Since then, silence. Over in New Zealand, former naval commander Rob Green (Hilda Murrell’s nephew) has his own views on Andrew George’s arrest. According to The New Zealand Herald he believes George […]
[…] it! Peter Jordan Peter Jordan first achieved local fame when he spread tin-tacks on the pitch of the Bristol rugby ground at half-time on the afternoon of New Year’s eve 1969. The West of England regional team were playing the touring South Africans and this was the culmination of a campaign against the tour […]
