[PDF file]: […] unfair. The trial judge will not allow the use of PII if the effect is to render the trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason […]
[PDF file]: […] Sansom’s Dominion (2012) are all bleak and plausible stories in which Britain is either invaded and defeated after Dunkirk, or sues for peace, with the appeasers ousting Churchill from power. Hitler winning seems a particularly popular story line today; but a clear inference to be drawn from all of this, whether in the UK […]
[PDF file]: DECADES OF DECEIT: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy Paddy Hillyard Belfast: Beyond the Pale Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley. Joyce’s talks, like Luxembourg’s broadcasts in the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government […]
[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]
[PDF file]: […] he absolutely believes that he is a ‘Great Man’, destined to leave his mark on history and be forever remembered as his country’s saviour, a contemporary Winston Churchill. Everything else is all about positioning. One of the mistakes that Seldon and Newell make is that they take him too seriously, despite all their damning […]
[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]
[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]
[PDF file]: […] East. (pp. 59-60) The main interest of the officers during the voyage was gambling and they established their own casino on board their transport ship, with Randolph Churchill losing £400 in one night. (As Mortimer points out, in today’s money that is over £22,000.) The Germans never stood a chance. There is not the […]
[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]
