[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Simon Matthews, Grattan Healey, David Turner, Jane Affleck, Harlan Girard, Anthony Frewin and Tom Easton for cuttings and other material since the last issue. Two years into New Labour and the loudest sound is the sound of surprise being expressed by people who ought to know better. There were the animal welfare and right-to-roam […]
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[PDF file]: […] Genetics, thirteen authors delivered a scientific answer to the question posed by Dame Rebecca. Rebecca West reported the 1946 Nuremberg trials for The Daily Telegraph and The New Yorker, describing the International Military Tribunal trial of the surviving Nazi big shots as ‘a historic peep-show’. Her fastidious editor at The New Yorker, William Shawn, […]
[PDF file]: The USA, China and a new Cold War? Scott Newton The US vs China: Asia’s new Cold War? Jude Woodward Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017 The late Jude Woodward’s The US vs China: Asia’s new Cold War? is an excellent guide to the developing crisis in relations between China and the West and essential […]
[PDF file]: Is a new ‘cold war’ coming? Dr T P Wilkinson T his question is asked repeatedly in the English-language media – probably the most heavily censored data streams in the world (a point to which I will return). Why should anyone worry about a new ‘cold war’? Perhaps it would be more relevant to […]
