[PDF file]: […] Consider IPG founder member Victor Raikes MP, who died this year. His obituary in the Times6 was extremely uninformative (like his Who’s Who entries) but did re mind Times readers that he had been Chair of the Monday Club from 1975-78.7 In 1944 Raikes was one of a quartet of MPs who, with the […]
[PDF file]: […] Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to re mind me of what he had once been before his sad decline, as evidenced by the appalling Corbyn volume. And this was before his 500+ page perverted […]
[…] Lord Falconer, Lord Chancellor at the time of the Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, knew what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer […]
[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]
[PDF file]: […] credentials. (p. 127) Trump, of course, did not attend the classes. There is much more of interest in Keddie’s book. Some minor points inevitably stick in the mind. For example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt […]
[PDF file]: […] – where it was considered Russia would exercise a veto and prevent action by the international community – they were not unreasonable considerations to be born in mind before engaging in military action. They were only of value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero […]
[…] Lord Falconer, Lord Chancellor at the time of the Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, knew what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer […]
