[PDF file]: DECADES OF DECEIT: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy Paddy Hillyard Belfast: Beyond the Pale Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or […]
[PDF file]: […] one of the more notorious catastrophes of the long class war. The unrepentant patriots and royalists treat this as a kind of bloodbath for national identity. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister while Douglas Sr. was wasting away on Leyte, was largely responsible for the political decision to attack Turkey on these insurmountable slopes. Churchill’s […]
[PDF file]: […] being played out so as to buy time, thus staving off an invasion, or there was a genuine coup under way. A coup designed simply to unseat Churchill. That is why Hess flew to Scotland. Had he wished to have made a peace with Churchill, there were a host of convenient airfields in and […]
[PDF file]: […] East. (pp. 59-60) The main interest of the officers during the voyage was gambling and they established their own casino on board their transport ship, with Randolph Churchill losing £400 in one night. (As Mortimer points out, in today’s money that is over £22,000.) The Germans never stood a chance. There is not the […]
[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]
[PDF file]: […] had considerable credibility in right-wing circles, even being ‘enthusiastically received . . . by senior cabinet members’. (p. 9) Consumed by his hatred for Bolshevism, even Winston Churchill seems to have briefly given the Protocols some credence. And then on 16, 17 and 18 August 1921, The Times published a series of articles by […]
[PDF file]: […] be helpful if he was a bit more precise. Instead, we are left with an entertaining essay rather than a guide to a possible future. * Simon Matthews’ study of Winston Churchill during the phoney war – A Study in Failure: Churchill at the Admiralty 1939-1940 – is published by Oldcastle Books in 2026. 3
[…] be helpful if he was a bit more precise. Instead, we are left with an entertaining essay rather than a guide to a possible future. * Simon Matthews’ study of Winston Churchill during the phoney war – A Study in Failure: Churchill at the Admiralty 1939-1940 – is published by Oldcastle Books in 2026. 3
[PDF file]: […] Labour Research really want there to be direct concrete ‘interests’ to explain the Tory Party’s infatuation with South Africa. And, yes, while there are some, Biggs-Davison, Knight, Churchill and Wall are not on their list. The ‘economic interest’ approach misses, marginalises, the fact that many on the Tory Right support South Africa because they […]
[PDF file]: The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence. Peter Luce The recent review of Kevin Coogan’s The Spy Who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground1 prompted me to re-read the work of another claimant to the Russian imperial succession. In 1998 Michael Gray, a former Technical College […]
