[PDF file]: […] money had been spent on equipment that was in place, there would be a weaker argument for disbanding SOE and replacing it with a purely SIS–staffed version. Churchill himself may not have been a supporter of the campaign to keep SOE alive but like much of Whitehall, as soon as the eventual defeat of […]
[PDF file]: […] merchants and soldiers often acquired an astonishing knowledge of Muslim culture and Islamic learning, along with a deep understanding of the societies where they were based.’ Winston Churchill was one of that knowing assembly. As a newly elected Conservative MP, Churchill stood out against his party and most of the country by attacking the […]
[PDF file]: […] unfair. The trial judge will not allow the use of PII if the effect is to render the trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason […]
[PDF file]: The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism Peter Oborne London: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger When I read Peter Oborne’s The Rise of Political Lying more than fifteen years ago, I was full of admiration for its exposure of New Labour’s dishonesty. This […]
[PDF file]: […] Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix- Churchill, who were MI6 agents, to be prosecuted.32 Echoes of this grubby incident have been invoked by the recent extradition (without due process) of retired British businessman […]
[PDF file]: […] a private lunch by John Harvey MP – the Commons’ ‘oil’ man – who was also former constituency chairman to Second World War Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. ‘To think, he knew the Great Man!’ my father would say in wonder. It is impossible to overestimate what the name ‘Churchill’ meant in those days. […]
[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person to cover. […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley. Joyce’s talks, like Luxembourg’s broadcasts in the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government […]
[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]
[PDF file]: […] he absolutely believes that he is a ‘Great Man’, destined to leave his mark on history and be forever remembered as his country’s saviour, a contemporary Winston Churchill. Everything else is all about positioning. One of the mistakes that Seldon and Newell make is that they take him too seriously, despite all their damning […]
