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Deaths in Parliament: a legend re-examined
[PDF file]: […] Alder The terrorist attack staged by Khalid Masood on 22 March 2017, in which he attempted to enter Parliament, raised some questions. Most interesting, to my mind, was the matter of how he managed to arrive with such precision at the moment when the Carriage Gate to the South of the parliamentary estate […]
Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine
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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 […]
‘Nobody told us we could do this’
[PDF file]: […] be an increasing reliance on paying for health care. Considering this wide-ranging and consistent approach to ordering life in the UK, the only comparison that comes to mind is with 18th century style mercantilism. Are we returning to this? A society in which wealth is based on trade, commerce and property ownership rather than […]
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[…] always easy meat for the orthodoxy of the City.) What was inflation between 1945 and 1970, 2-4% per annum on average? Who, in his or her right mind, would not trade off 4% inflation for full employment and 2% growth? Vaisey’s vision Another version of the same basic perception that a great watershed had […]
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[…] past 30 years or so.3 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.4 Three pages […]
The JFK Assassination Diary: My search for answers to the mystery of the century by Edward Jay Epstein
[PDF file]: […] member John J. McCloy telling him that the Commission had come under enormous pressure to complete the Report before the 1964 election campaign began in September. (Never mind who shot JFK, we’ve got an election to fight!) It was McCloy who made Inquest possible by giving Epstein two boxes of Commission documents, including the […]
Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement
[PDF file]: […] Summer 2010 be overcome in order to lodge an application with the IPT. In order to ensure the efficiency of the secret surveillance regime, and bearing in mind the importance of such measures to the fight against terrorism and serious crime, the Court considers that the restrictions on the applicant’s rights in the context […]
Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate
[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]