[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]
[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]: 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 […]
[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]: 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]: […] 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 […]
