Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] three right, and seems unconcerned about the others. He focuses on Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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[PDF file]: […] Hastings attributes this to Britain’s (and the USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] with enthusiasm across the globe. From the start of 1941 onwards, similar pledges were made by democracies, resistance movements and international organisations. The Atlantic Charter, signed by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, included the commitment to secure ‘freedom from fear and want’ for all, along with ‘improved labour standards, economic advancement, and social […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared with this, in 2015 on a turnout of 66%, 11.3 million (24.5% of the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of wine and had a an enjoyable chat. Out of which came a very good article.52 It was thus a pleasure to have his book on Winston Churchill reviewed in these columns by Simon Matthews.53 Since when Bowman has put together a website about the book on which there is a collection of other […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[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 […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[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. […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

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[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 […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[PDF file]: […] Rights that was an obstacle to immigration control and that this was an EU institution. She was wrong. First, the ECHR was established in 1950 by Winston Churchill amongst others. Second, it has nothing to do with the EU; if refugees turn up on our doorstep then the UK is under an international (i.e. […]

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