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Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called ‘pragmatism’ lead to […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] sad day for us all, but there is something to learn from and reflect on in terms of our humanitarian commitment and our willingness to re-engage with security.’ Two of the things ‘to learn’ from Blunkett’s references went unremarked by him, and they might just might have punctured some of the high-flown rhetoric from […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

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[PDF file]: […] complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or persons connected with them in the early 80s. The main narrative runs to 417 pages with a further 73 pages of footnotes and an […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called ‘pragmatism’ lead to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

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[PDF file]: […] was rebuffed and retired to Australia. There he continued trying to get serious attention paid to his investigations into the ‘mole’ – or ‘moles’ – in the Security Service. Eventually he was steered towards the Daily Express journalist Chapman Pincher with whom he produced the book Their Trade is Treachery in 1981. Wright might […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] member, Steven Carrillo, a serving USAF sergeant, carried out gun attacks in Oakland (29 May 2020) and in Santa Cruz County (6 June 2020), that left a security guard and a deputy sheriff dead and a number of others wounded. The suspicion was that the attacks were intended to be a kind of ‘false […]

View from the bridge

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[…] BfV. The indexes state the real name and codename of each spy. In the 1990s, they enabled the foreign intelligence network of the HVA and the Stasi’s security departments to be uncovered. They enabled the size of or 2 And the figure is not a mistake. He repeats it elsewhere on Quora: ‘Now in […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] member, Steven Carrillo, a serving USAF sergeant, carried out gun attacks in Oakland (29 May 2020) and in Santa Cruz County (6 June 2020), that left a security guard and a deputy sheriff dead and a number of others wounded. The suspicion was that the attacks were intended to be a kind of ‘false […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] other directors and all of them have senior roles within the main subsidiary. The key player amongst them is Timothy Mitchell, who was previously CEO of ‘safety security group Frontier/MEDEX’ which was sold to UnitedHealthcare in 2012.19 (More on UnitedHealthcare later.) He also worked for Kroll Security International and G4S Risk Management, and was […]