[…] past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a “conservative cast of mind“’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan Aitken.5 Three pages […]
[PDF file]: […] known for advising Democrat candidates so Harding missed an opportunity to balance the picture). And what of those firms – one prominent UK PR company comes to mind – with a history of working for 28 Alpha Dogs p. 219 29 New York Times 9 July 1996 30 Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand (New […]
[PDF file]: […] the NSA mass surveillance program operates in a similar fashion, presenting US citizens with an ‘implicit bargain’: ‘……pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]
[PDF file]: […] a world war and rationing, he parties hard. Keeping up with his endless social activities (he is always dining, noon and night, and continually drinking) brings to mind the observation of how difficult it would be for any reader to try and emulate the alcohol intake of James Bond, and remain sober.2 In the […]
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies with […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Oh-oh By some distance the biggest story I have seen recently is that told on ABC’s 60 Minutes series recently, Scott Pelley’s ‘Havana Syndrome mystery continues as a lead military investigator says bar […]
[PDF file]: […] the woman concerned with the startling information that according to her son, his late father said he had worked for the CIA and had been involved with mind control projects. Which brings us back to where we were circa 1970 with the discovery by various shrinks that Sirhan was susceptible to hypnosis and appeared […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
