[…] Eastern country to whom British companies could sells munitions. In The Times (27 April 1998), Gerald James said, ‘If the truth came out, Astra would make Matrix Churchill look like Sunday school outing.’ But the truth can no more come out, at least not officially, about Astra than it can about the Lockerbie bombing […]
[…] of s23 of the FOIA …… There are numerous dangers with having such a blanket exemption. One of the worst abuses came to light during the Matrix Churchill arms-to-Iraq case in 1992 when the government showed it was willing to see innocent people go to jail rather than disclose documents that proved it had […]
[…] standing on balconies taking the salute from wave upon wave of troops. It can also unite a nation in celebration: e.g. Britain’s Royal Family with Prime Minister Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the end of the Second World War. The Nativity play has the same intent. It has other PR ‘merits’, […]
[…] ‘of a widening of exchange parities (including introducing a floating rate)’.(4) One of the economists involved in this exercise was Donald MacDougall, previously adviser to the 1951-55 Churchill government, Economic Director of the NEDC from 1962-64 and then Director General of the Department for Economic Affairs. He later wrote that on 24 November he […]
[…] apparently stood for; and Thatcher, too, despite her rhetoric, relaxed her convictions when it suited. For her, of course, all post-war Conservative leaders, with the exception of Churchill (and then only because he was the great war leader who went ga-ga in his second term) were little better than closet socialists, accepting the ‘ratchet […]
[…] know against powerful vested interests. A bodyguard of lies Each new fantasy is fresh and every care is taken to embed it into a rich factual framework. Churchill was only half-right or half-honest when he said that a truth must have a bodyguard of lies. A lie must be protected by as many facts […]
[…] Inquiry D2.111 See Inquiry G12.30. The Report summarised the involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘ Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would […]
[PDF file]: […] says nothing of note in his record of 24-28 May 1940, the period John Lukacs covers in Five Days in London: May 1940,3 and a moment when Churchill came close to having to allow peace talks with Germany via Italy. Finally, there is no mention at all here of what happened on 7 June […]
[PDF file]: […] – with a vengeance. Criticising Edward Heath for being only half-hearted in his attempt at dismantling Britain’s socialist economy in the 1970s, he conveniently forgets that Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas Home – all Tories – had held the office of Prime Minister throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s […]
[PDF file]: […] peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed […]
