[PDF file]: […] survived exposure by The Observer while a Tony Blair adviser at No 10, enjoyed a spell as a Brussels eurocrat with Mandelson before both took ermine and Rothschild cash to fund the launch of their Policy Network ‘think tank’. Ms Thomson’s father was Knight of the Thistle Lord Thomson of Monifeith, a Lib Dem […]
[PDF file]: […] highest of high society circles with all the usual trappings of the uber-rich, including a London residence on Park Lane that he purchased from Baron Leopold de Rothschild. The considerable success of Radio Luxembourg, and Plugge’s expansion of his network via the International Broadcasting Company to Spain, Yugoslavia and Eire in the years that […]
[…] We learn that some of the think-tanks benefited from oligarch largesse long before Alexander Lebedev bought more direct public influence by acquiring the London Evening Standard. The Rothschild family feature prominently in this story and the authors recount the warm welcome Ken Livingstone gave to the Russian influx in his days as Mayor of […]
[PDF file]: […] most spectacular African assassinations and kidnappings of the 1960s – were now only too happy to assume a lower profile. Pompidou’s political patrons – most notably the Rothschild family with their huge complex of African investments – could, in future, have their corporations exploit this international milieu without governmental supervision. A similar process, culminating […]
[PDF file]: […] and that William Armstrong, who had been moved from the Treasury about three years before to be Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department, and (Lord) Victor Rothschild, Head of the “Think Tank” (Central Policy Review Staff) set up by Heath were also going. When we arrived, Ted started by asking William – who […]
[PDF file]: […] We learn that some of the think-tanks benefited from oligarch largesse long before Alexander Lebedev bought more direct public influence by acquiring the London Evening Standard. The Rothschild family feature prominently in this story and the authors recount the warm welcome Ken Livingstone gave to the Russian influx in his days as Mayor of […]
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[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] Europa appeared, the Grand Lodge of Austria (at behest of Hertz) recommended it to freemasons internationally. Additional funding for the Pan European Union came from Baron Louis Rothschild and Max Warburg, both freemasons. By 1926 these connections had been noted by fellow Austrian, Adolf Hitler, who pronounced ‘What Coudenhove writes could have been written […]
