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An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier
[PDF file]: […] connection to the death of Otto Warmbier Nick Must This article concerns events from the last two years that took place in North Korea (NK). Bearing in mind the secrecy that surrounds not only that country itself but also the overt (and covert) efforts of Western nations to destabilise it, some of what follows […]
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings
[PDF file]: […] of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the much bruited morale and good humour of the little English people in their slums – ‘never mind, dear, put on the kettle and we’ll have a nice cup of tea’1 – under the impact of Blitzkrieg. That’s the popular British version. The saturation […]
The Never Trumpers
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]
LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie
[PDF file]: […] to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind. The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted! The Sensational Life-Story of […]
The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage
[PDF file]: […] incidents. These came as one-offs or in waves. They stopped as quickly as they started, only to kick off again just as a semblance of peace of mind was being restored. Although largely invisible to mainstream Britain, the fear and hysteria this engendered within the Iraqi community and those associated with it was beyond […]
The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)
[PDF file]: […] records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination. The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files. The president intuited a connection between the failed invasion in 1961 and JFK’s assassination […]
[PDF file]: […] meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office Demis Hassabis, CEO and Founder, Deep Mind Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist David Lammy, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Bernard Looney, CEO, BP plc Zanny Minton Beddoes, […]
Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
[PDF file]: […] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. One last example of Stiglitz’s divorce from reality. He is still banging the tired old comparative advantage […]
Going South: why Britain will have a third world economy by 2014 by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson
[PDF file]: […] today would be a very different place. People will have their own views about what such ‘tipping points’ might have been, but the four below spring to mind. In them I sketch alternative courses of action which were available to the actors at the time, and which would have changed British history had they […]