[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]: […] Labour Research really want there to be direct concrete ‘interests’ to explain the Tory Party’s infatuation with South Africa. And, yes, while there are some, Biggs-Davison, Knight, Churchill and Wall are not on their list. The ‘economic interest’ approach misses, marginalises, the fact that many on the Tory Right support South Africa because they […]
[PDF file]: The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence. Peter Luce The recent review of Kevin Coogan’s The Spy Who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground1 prompted me to re-read the work of another claimant to the Russian imperial succession. In 1998 Michael Gray, a former Technical College […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: Contents The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Prawn Cocktail Party I rarely mentioned my Prawn Cocktail Party (PCP) in Lobster because I didn’t want to encourage people to buy it. PCP was mangled by the publisher. They scrambled the footnotes to two of the chapters and added errors, including different titles on front cover […]
[PDF file]: […] privatisation and City corruption leave us if Johnson’s leadership is the best the citizens of the UK can be offered? Johnson sees himself as a latter-day Winston Churchill and in portraying the Covid virus as the enemy plays up to the emotional attachment many Britons have for him. But the sober-minded electorate decided in […]
