The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?16 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a Union Jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

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[PDF file]: […] with ‘the US government and people who control a hefty budget line, kleptocratic networks from some of the most notorious countries in Africa and Latin America, the conservative Koch network and its allies in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the top reaches of Democratic Party leadership’. (pp. 100-101) Money clearly beats politics in […]

On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

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[PDF file]: […] ‘In her 2021 article ‘The Big Money behind the Big Lie’, Jane Mayer provides the evidence to conclude that a tide of money – mostly funneled through conservative interest groups such as the Bradley Foundation, Turning Point USA, True the Vote, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and others – are doing for election […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

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[PDF file]: […] control Germany’s mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the […]

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

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[PDF file]: […] his side kick Andy Wigmore (business interests in Belize), this seems an avenue at least worth exploring.16 As does Arron Banks’ October 2014 switch from being a Conservative donor to funding UKIP. When doing this, though, Banks and his colleagues were arriving late at the party. Sir Jack Hayward, the most prominent UK exponent […]

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