[…] of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant to evoke the SAS and the Iranian Embassy siege but it also represents Sandbrook’s view that Mrs T had come to rescue Blighty from decline.1 And after 40 years of Thatcherite policies of low […]
[PDF file]: […] subsidies from the United Arab Republic (UAR), including finance for an off-shore pirate radio station to broadcast his racism and anti-Semitism. The military attaché at the UAR embassy was very sympathetic, but nothing came of it. (p. 281) Jordan was obsessed with Rudolf Hess, urging that he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘the numbers employed in Soviet missions in the UK had by the mid-1960s reached record levels, and though a ceiling was imposed on the size of the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 […]
[PDF file]: […] documentary for Channel 4 which seemed to show that the official version of the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher – murdered by a shot from the Libyan embassy – was false; that she was shot by a gunman in another building as part of the demonisation of Libya by American intelligence. That documentary is […]
[PDF file]: […] time and again that they will ultimately damage or destroy any organisation to which they attach themselves. After the SLP collapsed, I was invited to the US embassy to a discussion on how it happened, with the ambassador present. They were very interested in the IMG. The effect they had on the SLP was […]
[PDF file]: […] not live up to the advertising. There is nothing about MI6’s role (if it had one). Hancock was acting ambassador during this period after most of the embassy staff were evacuated and it is that role which the book describes. There is a great deal about the day-to-day difficulties involved in maintaining the British […]
[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]
[PDF file]: […] In this context note that that Archibald James, Conservative MP for Wellingborough 1931-1945, was a friend of R. A. Butler, and served as Honorary First Secretary, British Embassy in Madrid 1940-1941, whilst still an MP. In other words, Hoare, Butler and others had a trusted link to Madrid during a period when the chances […]
[PDF file]: […] of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States ‘for nearly forty years’, ‘has long supported al Qaeda’ and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were ‘in large part Iranian operations’. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both ‘ISIS and al Qaeda’ […]
[…] by John Eatwell of the first two chapters, with notes, synopsis and some correspondence with the publisher.’ See item 9 at 6 He was in the Brussels embassy in 1966-68. He was not impressed. See his Goodbye to all that, (London: Macmillan, 1995) pp. 72-75. 7 Bryan Gould, Goodbye to all that p. 205. […]
