[PDF file]: […] about this, remembering the dominance of Oxbridge-educated elites in British politics during the 1960s and 1970s when I was a young man. Recently, however, I changed my mind. The key moment for me was an MA dissertation by a student of mine, on the impact of the 1979 Brandt Report (North-South: a programme for […]
[PDF file]: […] dead four years later on a ridge 700 metres below the summit of Mount Snowdon. A coroner found that he died of exposure when his state of mind was affected by alcohol, sleeping pills and confusion due to his personal situation. Paul Atkinson has now revealed how nine months before the Burnt House Farm […]
[PDF file]: […] sabotage has surfaced. But, from Haldeman’s January 1969 encounter with Nixon (described above), we know that Nixon entered office with his own subterfuge weighing heavily on his mind. This might have been compounded by the fact that, when he took office, Nixon abandoned any pretence at seeking peace and escalated the Vietnam War instead. […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]
[PDF file]: […] and if he did, in what capacity. The evidence here isn’t overwhelming, but on balance one would conclude he did. The most likely explanation that comes to mind is that his well above average intelligence was noted in the RAF. He was taught Danish and Norwegian and posted, after formal discharge, to Copenhagen where […]
