Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: Whatever Happened to Tommy the Red? Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power Tom Bower London: William Collins, 2019 Boris Johnson: The Gambler Tom Bower London: W H Allen, 2020 John Newsinger Tom Bower’s ‘biography’ of Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most contemptible books that I have ever read. It comes across as if […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior to speaking with Boris Johnson. 4 Massively exaggerated in the sense that the UK is a party to […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

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[PDF file]: […] of Books, 5 November 2020 at or . This concludes with a quote from The Daily Telegraph damning the government, written by Nick Timothy, former advisor to Theresa May MP and an indication of the state Johnson is now in. 4 One wonders why, rather than ‘supporting the government’, Labour leader Keir Starmer doesn’t say […]

The Lexit delusion

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[PDF file]: The Lexit delusion Scott Newton The question of Britain’s relationship to the EU has been a real problem for the Labour Party since the 2016 referendum. Does its result offer the British Left a great opportunity to break free from the restrictions which come with membership of the organization and tie the nation to a […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] home. It will be interesting to see how they prevent this: claim that an inquiry into Kincora has already been held?34 Cite national security? The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been quoted as saying she would ‘have to consider the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act in some cases’.35 Colin Wallace – who would be […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: […] being relied upon to support this theory of a stand-in.2 The online hordes even thought they had identified the Clinton ‘clone’, in the form of professional lookalike Theresa Barnwell.3 Ms Barnwell formerly worked in banking before quitting to exploit her natural good fortune as a full-time job, which gives some idea of what a […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

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[PDF file]: […] more? Have we progressed that far from James Bond? Change is coming? But it could all change soon. During the Commons debate on the EAW, Home Secretary Theresa May made it clear that the criteria for Britain’s abiding by it had changed, so that much stricter criteria would be followed in the future. Formal charges […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] It will be interesting to see how they prevent this: claim that an inquiry into Kincora has already been held? 33 Cite national security? The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been quoted as saying she would ‘have to consider the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act in some cases’.34 31 p. 35. Thanks to HP […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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[PDF file]: […] Farage and then by pro-Brexit Tories. Creagh’s pre-2019 near-neighbour in Don Valley, Caroline Flint, had seen the writing on the wall, but her efforts to support a Theresa May ‘soft Brexit deal’ came too late to save her. She tells Payne: ‘We failed to understand people’s concerns about Europe and about immigration. They voiced their […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

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