Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

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[PDF file]: Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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[PDF file]: […] how to meet the standards. The rules about fire were contained in Approved Document B. There were those who issued warnings. As the act neared Royal Assent, Labour peer Lord Sydney Irving tried to sound the alarm: “I hope that when the government come to consider the building regulations and the guidance in the […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] The point was not lost on Roosevelt and the informal coalition of progressives, Keynesians, socialists, social-democrats (‘liberals’ in US political discourse), communists, left-wing populists, farmers and organised labour which supported his administration. They were committed to a ‘New Deal’ for the American people, a break from the old politics which had generally avoided (outside […]

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Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] of goods, panic buying and the disruption of industry. A dock strike did take place, in July 1984, with dockers coming out following the use of non-union labour to unload iron ore at the Immingham dock on the Humber. As a result Thatcher and her colleagues in MISC101 drew up plans for ‘Operation Halberd’, […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] Foot was also living rent free in a cottage on Beaverbrook’s Cherkley estate. Foot thought all this showed what a nice chap the reactionary and ferociously anti- Labour Beaverbrook was. But its more likely was that he saw the Labour Left as worth covertly supporting because it might help divide the Labour Party in […]

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[…] 9 25 their oil and gas taps. That would have got their attention PDQ. Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]

A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’

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[PDF file]: […] largely monopolised by British producers; full mobilisation of all the nation’s military and industrial resources for war would both necessitate economic planning and create a demand for labour which would swing the balance of power on the factory floor in favour of the trade unions. At home, Britain would be transformed into a semi-socialist […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] of goods, panic buying and the disruption of industry. A dock strike did take place, in July 1984, with dockers coming out following the use of non-union labour to unload iron ore at the Immingham dock on the Humber. As a result Thatcher and her colleagues in MISC101 drew up plans for ‘Operation Halberd’, […]

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