Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Ascherson, ‘On Tom Nairn’, London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 4, 16 February 2023, p. 12. See also Anthony Barnett, ‘Deciding Britain’s Future: Tom Nairn, Gordon Brown, Marxism and Nationalism’, Open Democracy, 30 January, 2022, or . The ‘NairnAnderson thesis’ can be found in, for example, Perry Anderson, ‘Origins of the Present Crisis’ […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

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[PDF file]: […] most popular man at BSkyB’, 11 November 2011, . 50 See David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, (New York: Little, Brown, 2008). 51 ‘Masters of the World’, Daily Mirror, 10 October 1997. (Barber), and credited with ‘tremendous dynamism while staying resolutely behind the scenes’ (Wullschlager).5 2 But […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

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[PDF file]: […] question. All they would have to do is shut up Tom Watson MP! Indeed, Murdoch has actually let it be known that he wanted to back Gordon Brown at the general election, but was persuaded by young James and Rebekah Brooks that Cameron was the coming man. This, one suspects, is a decision that […]

Back from the brink by Alistair Darling

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[PDF file]: […] we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old Labour. He says nationalising Lloyds/HBOS was ‘the last thing I wanted…. bringing with it all the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

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[PDF file]: […] of two world wars and the previous destruction of 400 years of slavery and colonialism, white folks were threatened by an explosion in the number of ‘ brown people’. Of course the book did not use such explicit language but anyone who read the list of countries could see that what was to be […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[PDF file]: […] fascinating Osborne/Bowen is assembled at 5 See . There is also a Wiki entry on the organisation. Page 35 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 mistress, the late Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning 6 and the version attributed to the late ‘Loy’ Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor, originally a book and now […]

Dallas again

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[PDF file]: […] What ‘contrived’ means for Morley, I don’t know. As for ‘conjectural’, there is good conjecture and bad. The witness to whom Morley refers is the late Madeleine Brown, one of LBJ’s mistresses. In fact she is peripheral to the story. She was useful in the beginning, when Glen Sample and Mark Collom kicked off […]

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