[…] Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]
[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.9 It makes obvious political sense […]
[…] Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast fraternity. But readers looking for insight into the US/UK relationship from someone so well positioned will be disappointed, as they will be in seeking […]
[PDF file]: […] by laundering huge volumes.’ 4 Nicholas Shaxson, a consultant at Britain’s Tax Justice Network, has shown how offshore tax havens are now financially starving both the neo- liberal capitalist states and the European social democracies by diverting much needed tax revenue. In his Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World, […]
[…] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]
[…] novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.9 It makes obvious political sense […]
[PDF file]: […] a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment John Preston London: Viking/Penguin, 2016, 340 pages, illustrations, index; hardback, around £12. It’s nearly forty years since the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe and several unlikely ‘associates’ were on trial at the Old Bailey for conspiring to murder Thorpe’s lover, Norman Scott. To the astonishment of […]
