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 […]
[…] Air Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave the RFA a grant to pass on 2 to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] As often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]
