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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] getting better and that the United Kingdom was about to become the most innovative country in the world, or, as Rishi Sunak put it at the 2021 Conservative Conference: “the most exciting place on the planet”. A government comprised of ministers apparently impervious to basic social and scientific facts had found that their only […]

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Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

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"Fritz gives a critique of misuse of the US military, done mainly (he says) on Israel's behalf, by the neocons of the early 2000s. The name that recurs most is the relatively obscure Doug Feith."

Robin Ramsay reviews Dennis Fritz's "Deadly Betrayal"

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"A wonderful German word, Verschlimmbesserung, means to make things worse while trying to improve them. Those in charge of the British state provided a spectacular example of this."

Robin Ramsay reviews "To Catch a Spy" by Tim Tate (@TimTateBooks)

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