[PDF file]: […] became David Cameron’s Attorney General after the 2010 election. The only Parliamentarian who has expressed any sustained interest in the fate of Dr Kelly is the former Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker. His The Strange Death of David Kelly1 was published in 2007. Goslett acknowledges the help of Baker, whose extensive efforts […]
[PDF file]: Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot London: Mudlark Harper Collins 2021 £20.00 (h/b) John Booth There are journalists – and then there are journalists. There’s Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who while London Mayor called his £250,000 Daily Telegraph second-job contract ‘chicken feed’.1 And then […]
[…] the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.7 ’ I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been excised […]
[PDF file]: […] when her husband was in captivity). The list includes two sons of Roger Chance, press attaché at the British embassy in Berlin in 1938; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1937-1940; Pamela Baldwin, daughter of the British prime minister; Stewart Blacker, organiser, navigator and photographer on the 1933 Houston-Mount […]
[PDF file]: […] safely ignored for the rest of time. ‘The Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, set out his vision for a liberal Brexit in a speech at Policy Exchange.’ 26 From the Policy Exchange speech: ‘As I have just discovered we have more than a million people who […]
