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South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)
[PDF file]: […] This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure Messrs. Tugendhat and Ellwood could be viewed as something of a dream ticket […]
Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
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 – […]
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
[PDF file]: […] but ‘a ferocious and unresolved debate’ within the CIA and other US agencies over who was responsible, led to the attack being cancelled. Not the debate and vote in the House of Commons, but disagreements within the US intelligence apparatus. What of Mossad and British intelligence? We are told in a throwaway sentence that […]
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 […]