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Secrecy in Britain
[PDF file]: […] existence across all government departments. These 101,283 files had been retained after a review under the Public Records Act; while, by contrast, the FCO Special Collections and MOD files had never been reviewed under the Act. In an account of the history of secrecy in Britain by David Vincent titled the The Culture of […]
Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran
[PDF file]: […] illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate in a US-led attack on Iran with ships, cruise missiles and access to British military bases such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.1 […]
The View from the Bridge
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse […]
ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
[PDF file]: […] for the likes of the monarchy, government, civil servants. Despite some of its space being sold off (including for a rather large wine cellar), the caverns underneath MoD ‘What to do in a radiation emergency’ or 5 or 6 or 7 4 Corsham, near Bath must remain a possible refuge even though the existence […]
Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike
[PDF file]: […] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]
The view from the bridge
[…] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]
Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike
[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]
An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett
[PDF file]: […] international figure not only in that field but also in weapons inspection.2 At the time of his death he was working for the Ministry of Defence ( MoD) and was about to set off on his 38th visit to Iraq, following many similar missions to Russia. Dr Kelly had become the subject of heated […]
Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]