[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. […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
View from the bridge
[…] in Hungary and announced instead that: An innocent man would stand and face trial. Gonzalo Lira is not an innocent man. Gonzalo Lira is a criminal propagandist. 103 Ashton-Cirillo was also very keen to defend the honour of the Ukrainian SBU, whom Lira had accused of being behind the violent extortion in SIZO. AshtonCirillo […]
