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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’ […]
View from
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
Historical notes on the four freedoms
[PDF file]: […] the UK, freedom of movement – or, rather, the wish that there were less of that – was ultimately a key part of the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote to leave. The salience of the term ‘the Four Freedoms’ in the context of debates in recent years about the development of the EU and of […]
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Knightley
[…] 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’ […]
States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl
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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] issue of The Jewish Chronicle before the general election Peter Mandelson was given space by editor Stephen Pollard to write the leading comment article urging readers to vote Labour. ‘Our beliefs are your beliefs,’ wrote Mandelson: ‘The Labour Party is driven by many of the same values that have historically united and defined the […]
To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’
[PDF file]: […] who happened to remain there. As for the Black population of the US, they had nothing to say in the matter. The number of Blacks allowed to vote for Wilson was insignificant. Furthermore they did not need to go to Europe to be killed. It was dangerous enough being Black in the US. The […]