[PDF file]: […] contacts with the IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their ilk bellowing their lies and hate speech in our ears? Having said that, how is it then that Centrism […]
[PDF file]: […] at a price. The ever-swelling public sector took on huge new projects to provide jobs – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] I should have made my discovery known at once. The reason I did not was that I myself was then an Army officer and knew the military mind: any discovery I claimed to have made would have been quickly swept under the carpet and buried for another thirty years.’129 I took this advice to […]
[PDF file]: […] really mean anything? Could it not have been simple braggadocio (success has many fathers)? Marcello was then an old man on the foothills of dementia, and his mind was wandering. We’ll probably never know one way or the other, not that this is that important. Working from this starting point Waldron then cherrypicks his […]
[…] 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]: […] interest a television news report by the BBC’s John Simpson on the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan. One part of that report has particularly stayed in my mind. For a brief moment in the video, sacks of currency – Simpson called them ‘bales of banknotes’ – were seen on the floor of a helicopter. […]
[…] defendant typically receives an expedited but much-reduced sentence for their candour and penitence. The effect of Ashton-Cirillo’s untruthful pre-trial comments was to convict Lira in the public mind as soon as he had been arrested. The reality was clarified when the Ukrainian authorities proceeded to set court dates for Lira’s defence case, in a […]
