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The view from the bridge
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
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 […]
The Rise of New Labour: Into Office
[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]
A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11
Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.’ ‘Report from Bonoko Institute for Electoral Democracy blames poor numeracy for delayed vote count in chaotic US presidential elections, notes that in the last two decades, the country’s math scores had stagnated in international assessments of national education systems.’ […]