[…] getting a suitcase onto a plane. A Scottish police team in Malta found that Dalkomini, as well as Talb, had visited the island; that Talb owned a brown Samsonite suitcase of the type used for the bomb; and that Talb flew out of Malta on 26 November, 1988 — just three days after the […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the dog in the back seat) but got a good look at the driver and described him as a European male aged approximately 50, with short-cut brown hair. Le Van Than is conspicuously Asian, was 22 years old at the time of the crash and had (and has) a thick mop of jet-black […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] King MP (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow), ‘Losers win’, the Guardian, 18 November 2000 15 See, for example, Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (London: Little, Brown, 1997) and Sally Denton and Roger Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America, 1947-2000 (New York: Alfred […]
[…] the supposed links between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.’ And there’s more, ‘Case Closed answers all lingering questions about the assassination.’ Harold Evans, aka Mr Tina Brown, was editor-in-chief of Random House at the time and, according to Posner, Evans himself actually wrote all this hyperbole. What a sad descent for someone who […]
