[…] which experienced spectacular post-war growth but then faced increasing difficulties in sustaining it. Japan’s growth rate, which once led to the Japanese economy being proposed as a new model for the older Western economies, has been sluggish throughout the nineties, and is currently virtually zero. Mills’ book traces the patterns of the world’s economies […]
[…] deal about Kincoragate. Lambray’s 900 page autobiography happened to go missing. MI5 was highly pleased – the book named names. (Guardian 28th July 1983) * * * New Society (31st June 1984) Former MI5 officer Miranda Ingram, who worked with Michael Bettaney, describes working conditions and MI5 philosophy. Boring for her and for us…. […]
[…] left of British politics – including this writer – that the Conservative Party was in the control of people about whom, and about whose thinking, they k new almost nothing. The readily available sources of information on the Tories were then slight: in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of […]
[…] of the US security and foreign policy bodies were literally waiting for an attack to come, having failed in the months before the event to persuade the new Bush White House team to take the threat seriously. When the Twin Towers were hit they knew who had done it. Starting there, with the passenger […]
[…] of working hours he mixed freely with many enthusiasts of the rising science fiction genre: Bradbury, Heinlein, van Vogt and Philip K Dick all met or k new him. In August 1941 he invented and claimed a patent on a small rocket that could be strapped to a conventional propeller driven aircraft to assist […]
[…] me first digress into a short history of Gemstone. Gemstone first appeared in the UK in 1976 in typewritten, photocopy form, attributed to ‘The Jesse James Press, New York and London’. A copy reached Hull (I have heard of copies as far away as the Sudan) with the instruction that the reader should copy […]
[…] as the Czechs had peeled away, two Spitfires from the crack 602 City of Glasgow Squadron were scrambled from their base in Scotland. ‘Pedro’ Hanbury and the New Zealand ace, ‘Al’ Deere, were vectored in to shoot down the German intruder. In his autobiography, Deere said the pair of 602 Spitfires got close to […]
[…] is in the autobiography of the British actor, Richard Todd, In Camera. On p. 228 he writes: ‘I was Bill Astor’s guest at a meeting of the New Welcome Masonic Lodge of which he was Master. I was very impressed with his quietly authoritative working and sure handling of the ceremony. Bill had just […]
[…] NACRO, The Howard League for Prison Reform Trust useful or otherwise though at times these last may well have been. It is crucial to appreciate which new groups emerged, when, how and in certain cases who was involved and, the extent to which (ie. on which matters they separately as well as jointly […]
[…] to the (Hilda) Murrell murder in that it can be plainly seen there is a very close link between the IPI and government agencies who were responsible for monitoring the activities of nuclear protesters. During my (—–) year of membership in the IPI I came into contact with various officials, serving members of the […]
