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The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock
[PDF file]: Dr Sargant and Mr Sleep The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal Jon Stock London: The Bridge Street Press/Little Brown, 2025 416 pp., bibliography, notes, index, £25 h/b. Anthony Frewin In the late 1950s and 1960s Dr William Sargant was the media’s go-to expert on everything – from psychiatry and mental illness to […]
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
[PDF file]: […] 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is at or 2 2 demonising Muslims […]
The Gloucester Horror
[PDF file]: […] National Archives file AVIA 101/745 is perhaps most interesting not for what it contains but for its folder. In common with such files of government paperwork, the brown card ‘dust jacket’ bears columns that record to whom the completed file was referred and on what date, allowing a reader to trace its bureaucratic travels. […]
The Lexit delusion
[PDF file]: […] Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and the Barclay Brothers, it has sustained a series of Conservative governments since 2010. It propelled the country towards Euroscepticism even in the Blair- Brown era and achieved its most spectacular success in the 2016 referendum and 2019 General Election. The politics and economics of Brexit are therefore right-wing, fusing neoliberalism […]
2011: a Reagan odyssey
[PDF file]: […] ally, the Soviet Union, real wars with weapons of mass destruction were waged by the US throughout the planet – mainly against what George Carlin called ‘ brown people’. The phoney war was dead serious in that US strategic planners – several of whom were outright fascists recruited from Eastern Europe or Germany – […]
View from the Bridge 89
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.31 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying 30 or . Peter Mandelson was Thatcherite number 3. 31 11 the slightest awareness that he had any […]
South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)
[PDF file]: […] help us! – Liz Truss). Doubtless this is the real reason for the removal of the whip: divide and conquer. 2 These being Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron . 3 It is quite possible that he had/has someone managing his social media. 4 1 eerily quiet.5 It was the weekend after […]
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
[PDF file]: […] worth mentioning here that in 2009, even though it had never been a British colony or dependency, Rwanda was invited by the New Labour government of Gordon Brown to join the British Commonwealth. Its membership was opposed by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative because of the regime’s human rights record, but Rwanda was allowed […]