[…] career where the best interests of the child can conflict with the adults involved, but it is certainly one where the adults can be the least trustworthy. Notes This article is about civil servants i.e. ‘the staff’. The families of those who are not staff – e.g. agents such as Colonel Oleg Gordiefsky – […]
[…] years before it was exposed, and describes P2 boss Gelli’s plan to take control of Italian society by buying the media and the unions, and forming a new kind of political party – some of which Berlusconi did do. Berlusconi is generally thought of as being a front man for organised crime; but in […]
[…] is one of the best books on the war in Northern Ireland I have read and the best account we have of the loyalist-British state alliance there. Notes 1 My guess is we will never get that, not even if we get some kind of Truth and Reconciliation process there. And there will be […]
[…] a series of essays – Labour and Europe; Conservatives and Europe; economics and Europe; public opinion and Europe etc. – which survey the subject of the UK’s involvement in the EU project since the war. If there is anything new and significant in this second volume I missed it; but I did merely skim it.
[…] and it is the first time this has been published (which itself is pretty astonishing.) All punctuation and emphases are as in the original. Private and Confidential Notes on the Practice of Lobby Journalism, July 1969 Lobby Practice The Lobby journalist’s authority to work in Parliament is the inclusion of his name in a […]
[…] by Macauley’s brother – that the couple did not intend to marry because Macauley’s cat would not get on with the official 11 Downing Street cat! The New Labour-friendly Patrick Wintour joined in, reporting in the Observer of 26 January a dinner party attended by Brown ‘and his team, including his close friend Sarah […]
[…] what GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated twentieth century British politics by never having any serious rivals on the right. Contrast the Liberal and Labour parties and at […]
[…] clear; or – and this is my view – a collection of fragments which, though they do not form a coherent whole, are of considerable Fortean interest. Notes 1 In his account of it in the book, UFOs 1947-1987, ed. John Spencer and Hilary Evans, (London: Fortean Tomes (sic)) 1987. 2 Thomas republished Torbitt, […]
[…] I just happen to have on my shelves Betrayal at Pearl Harbour by James Rusbridger and Eric Nave, (Michael O’Mara Books Ltd, London 1992; Simon & Schuster, New York). Eric Nave was the man who broke the Japanese naval cipher JN-25 in 1939. Churchill actually sent a message to Roosevelt at 03h20 London time […]
[…] the body taken after the ‘execution’ of Green. As Lobster 4 was being prepared this story broke on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports and in the Guardian and New Statesman. It is of interest, re the reliability of Sunday News reports, that in this instance their story was correct. More on this in Lobster 5. […]
