[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] had considerable credibility in right-wing circles, even being ‘enthusiastically received . . . by senior cabinet members’. (p. 9) Consumed by his hatred for Bolshevism, even Winston Churchill seems to have briefly given the Protocols some credence. And then on 16, 17 and 18 August 1921, The Times published a series of articles by […]
[PDF file]: […] money to help pay for Field Marshal von Manstein’s defence at his trial! They raised over £1600, not a mean sum in those days, with even Winston Churchill donating £25. This was all part of the attempted Cold War rehabilitation of the German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi […]
[PDF file]: […] but unwilling to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s […]
[PDF file]: […] have a standard rate of income tax that is at or higher than 33%. However, the UK has not had this level of taxation since 1978. When Churchill started his second term (1951) the standard rate of income tax was 45%; when Macmillan became PM (1959) it was 42.5%; when Wilson started (1964) it […]
[PDF file]: […] is to attach it to an existing one. As is abundantly clear from the wealth of famous quotations that are falsely attributed to him, Lincoln – like Churchill and Einstein – is an ideal vector.75 Whoever drew up the original Lincoln-Kennedy list had produced a propaganda masterpiece. The Lincoln-Kennedy samizdat complemented the action that […]
