[PDF file]: […] book on the work of the 9/11 Commission. Another one, impressive in another way, is Paul Thompson. His 9/11 History Commons timeline is the product of enormous labour 6 and his four-part interview appropriately wraps up the Gold compilation. In offering us chapter-by-chapter research links for those wishing to dig deeper, Gold encourages others […]
[PDF file]: […] were normally made available for inspection in the PRO, now called the National Archives, after 50 years. This was reduced in 1967 to 30 years by the Labour government after a successful campaign by historians and others. Subsequently the Dacre Review recommended that the 30 year rule should be replaced by 15 years. The […]
[…] there is much work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ (The Times, 12 October 2008). That million was or would be ultimately forthcoming from […]
[…] chapters about his unwitting support role in the JFK assassination which is recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. 19 Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front.
[…] entering related professional fields. From an ideological perspective, it also demonstrated the apprentice’s soundly socialist character, having achieved personal development through willing and voluntary participation in collective labour. After nearly two years of work, Olaf Neitsch completed his apprenticeship and became a qualified ‘journeyman’ professional. The journey he had in mind was a short […]
[PDF file]: […] meant expanding the British principle of indirect rule by creating and supporting nominally independent regimes that bear all the social costs through extortionate taxation, while assuring that labour and natural resources are freely accessible to US corporations — in Vietnam’s case, particularly those operating in Japan. Unlike industrial economies, peasant economies, such as those […]
[PDF file]: […] is unprecedented, but it certainly reflects the times we are living through. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party. David Charter, ‘Joe Biden: Army will have to drag Trump out if he loses’, The Times 13 June 2020 7
[…] there’s no consideration of the bomb that exploded at the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade on Saturday, July 22 1916, which resulted in the finding of two labour leaders Billings and Mooney guilty of the outrage (only to be pardoned many years later when the state admitted there was no evidence of their 203 […]
[PDF file]: […] results started to trickle in. The example that is foremost in my mind is the constituency of Bedford Borough, my place of birth and a key Tory- Labour marginal. Here it was reported that a sack containing 5,000 extra votes had appeared, as if out of nowhere, when the count was nearing completion. When […]
[PDF file]: […] that far from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the […]
