Casa Pia The making of a modern European witch hunt by Richard Webster

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[…] and, in the case of Bryn Estyn, certainly, had more ridicule been applied to the nonsense about satanic child abuse, which was imported in the years before from American Christian circles and took root here in some Christian social workers (who believed in the literal existence of Satan). RR Page 103 Summer 2011 Lobster 61

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Smith (see note 9) p. 98 16 Donald Macdougal, Don and Mandarin (London: John Murray, 1987) p. 248 17 Lawson (see note 1) p. 85 18 Ibid. 103 Winter 2010 M3 as the main monetary measure and suggested that we should allow it to rise in the first half of 1981. In short, Professor […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] crashed in April, killing all aboard. Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] to smear him as a Czech agent. 26 58. This period is discussed in detail in Dorril and Ramsay part 4. 59. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 103 60. Ibid. 61. Verney letter to author. 62. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 93. 63. This Time Out story was republished as ‘The CIA backs the […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] Decline of Tory Britain (London: Verso, 2021), pp. 82-3. 16 Paul Johnson and Steven Webb, ‘Explaining the Growth in UK Income Inequality, 1979-88’, The Economic Journal, vol. 103 (1993), pp. 429-435. 17 Charles Woolfson, John Foster and Matthew Beck, Paying the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry (London: Mansell, 1997), pp. […]

The meaning of subservience to America

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[PDF file]: […] America for Christmas. American military personnel were pulled off the plane. A delegation of South Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. 103) What prepared the way for Trump, however, was the Tea Party movement. This powerful insurgency inside the Republican Party was funded by ‘billionaires like the Coors […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

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[PDF file]: […] on Whitehall’s radar. As Stock writes, ‘For the next thirty years various government agencies, including the intelligence services, would turn to him for advice and help’. (p. 103) These included Porton Down, where Sargant was involved in the non-consensual administering of LSD to soldiers. Sargant and his wife appear to have been ‘swingers’ and […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[PDF file]: […] key witness in the trial, it having been determined that a timer manufactured by Mebo Electronics had detonated the explosives that had brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. Careful procedural arguments made by the prosecution underscored that while Bollier was not being charged at that point as either […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: How Dare You David Stirling The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky […]

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