Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its […]
[…] secondary bond market, for more than 40 per cent of global derivatives’ means that much of the chaos of the past year originated in London, while Gordon Brown and Ed Balls were in charge of the Treasury. Which makes Brown’s posturing as the man who will reform the financial world the more ridiculous. Credit […]
BAP The Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines a bap as a ‘large soft bread roll’. How soft or hard the British American Project for the Successor Generation is — only time will tell. But it is certainly proving rather indigestible to the British media. By any standards a major story, Tom Easton’s piece on BAP (in […]
Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing […]
[…] the Skull and Bones was Prescott Bush Snr., father of the first President Bush. A scion of New York’s financial establishment, Prescott Bush was a director of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, the oldest private bank in the United States. He was also a director of the Union Banking Corporation, a bank set up […]
The SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Nigel West Little Brown and Company, 1996, £16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn’t take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the […]
[…] 2001. Tesco also announced record profits (£1bn – The Daily Telegraph 10 April 2001) due mainly to their huge expansion in eastern Europe post 1990. Blair and Brown have so far rejected the idea of any windfall tax. 3 The Sunday Times 17 June 2001. 4 The Sunday Times 11 and 18 March 2001. […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
[…] the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work of the AFL-CIO, the American TUC and a well known CIA figure in the post-war labour movement. Among the senior […]
[…] from Noel Buxton, 7 Mar 1940. Aberconway held many directorships in the iron, steel and shipbuilding industries. In 1939 he had been, for example, chairman of Firth Brown Steel and of Westland, and a director of the National Provincial Bank. Information from Professor R.M. Griffiths (University of London). Professor Griffiths possesses the membership book […]
