[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: 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 […]
[…] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 41 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . me, verbatim, that elections cannot be allowed to change established economic policy. In other words, that democracy […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The miners’ strike Interesting piece by ex New York Times reporter Joe Lauria at Consortiumnews on the 40th anniversary commemoration of the miners’ strike.1 But there are two serious omissions in it. Lauria […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
