[…] Secretary Rifkind to take his sacking to an industrial tribunal, and had his appeal against dismissal rejected by the chairman of the Intelligence Service Tribunal, Lord Justice Brown. Tomlinson’s mother said (the Sunday Times 21 December 1997) that her son described the Intelligence Service Tribunal as ‘a complete farce, a star chamber where he […]
Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for … Read more
[…] and who-knows-what-else that were going to ensure the state would continue even if there was no one left to govern. Well, we had Civil Defence (whitewash and brown paper bags), but even its most devout apologists finally accepted that it was all kidology and strictly for the mugs. Now, the amazing thing about these […]
[…] despite the Labour Party’s internecine squabbling, is one of the awkward facts omitted from Phillip Gould’s The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, Little Brown and Co., London, 1998. In the postscript to the BAP pamphlet Weyer seeks to refute the Tom Easton thesis on BAP in Lobster 33 which, he […]
From Chris R. Tame, London, UK Re: Edward Leigh MP and the Liverpool News. “Some years ago Leigh wrote an anti-CND article for the Sunday Telegraph. The Liverpool News, an obscure pro-National Front rag wrote to him to ask him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the … Read more
[…] and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew very little until he began to research his life. The result […]
[…] in a process of manipulation and patronage that has slipped from being about covert funding to overt flirtation and can be traced right through to Blair and Brown today. It is true that New Labour was strongly influenced by the Clinton team’s concept of ‘triangulation’, or what’s now being called ‘convergence’. But what is […]
[…] is, under RIPA s59(3), similarly required to assist the Tribunal in their investigations, though in his first report, published in October 2001, the Commissioner, Lord Justice Simon Brown, does not refer to providing assistance to the IPT. (9) A further Commissioner, known as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner for Northern Ireland, is also established under […]
[…] So the invasion of Iraq was part of a drive to democratise the the Arab world and advance the cause of women in it! Notes 1. Colin Brown, Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice, ‘No 10 admits Hutton cover-up’, The Independent 17 July 2004. 2. A similar process is happening in education policy where, inch […]
[…] some nous and a good sceptical eye has done some serious work on it. In Fortean Studies vol 7, (eds. Ian Simmonds and Melanie Quin; London: John Brown Publishing, 2001) that most persistent of pamphleteers, Kevin McClure, has gone through the literature on the subject in great detail and concludes that the whole thing […]
