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The view from the bridge
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]
Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike
Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites
[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]
Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike
The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq
[PDF file]: […] noted by his wife Senator Hillary Clinton, in her speech to the US Senate in 2002 in support of the so-called Iraq War Resolution. She described her vote for the resolution as saying ‘clearly to Saddam Hussein: This is your last chance; disarm or be disarmed.’136 Hillary ran unsuccessfully for the Democrat presidential nomination […]