[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person to cover. […]
[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]: […] an untidy mind and sub-zero diplomatic judgement. He is an international stain on our reputation’. And to make matters even worse, he ‘thinks he is the next Churchill’. (p. 227) When Johnson eventually became Prime Minister and appointed his new Cabinet, as far as Duncan was concerned he had replaced ‘the Sensibles with the […]
[PDF file]: […] Carolina, Pence told the crowd that Pence also makes clear how much he valued Boris Johnson’s ‘friendship and respect’ and refers to ‘his brilliant biography of Winston Churchill’. (p. 359) He has obviously not read it. 21 21 ‘my faith teaches me to give second chances. There was too much at stake not to. […]
[PDF file]: […] before Dunkirk, in the late spring of 1940 as more and more of France fell under German control and following War Cabinet discussion of the proposal, Winston Churchill instructed Colonel Colin Gubbins3 to form a resistance force of civilian volunteers. These were the Auxiliary Units. Malcolm Atkins argues on his website4 and in his […]
