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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]
Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton
Political life in Britain
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] conference session ended. For as we know now the Kinnock team had already decided to capitulate and ‘Thatcherise’ the 13 Or England and Wales, if the Scots vote for independence in the September referendum. Its ‘mission statement’ includes this: ‘Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] to New York, Shanghai or even Amsterdam.81 In the comments below that article someone wrote: Is that the same Sir Paul Marshall that donates to the Tories, Vote Leave, and GB News? It’s almost as if Brexit was a coup by moneyed charlatans to avoid tax, scrutiny, and regulations. The evidence suggests that Brexit […]
A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor
[PDF file]: […] ‘Remainer’ and ‘Brexiteer’. Norton-Taylor’s preferences slot predictably onto both axes. Apropos of not much, the book is shot through with barbs about the foolishness of the Brexit vote. Norton-Taylor’s principle arguments for the EU – support for the European Arrest Warrant and greater sharing of data – look to be at variance with his […]
Beaumont novel copy
[…] referendum might have been influenced by hostile actors, which fed into an unwillingness to look at it too closely.6 Did the Russian try to influence the Brexit vote? Yes, they did. But the extant evidence shows that the Russians operations were relatively minor and seem unlikely to me to have had a significant effect.7 […]