[PDF file]: […] when her husband was in captivity). The list includes two sons of Roger Chance, press attaché at the British embassy in Berlin in 1938; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1937-1940; Pamela Baldwin, daughter of the British prime minister; Stewart Blacker, organiser, navigator and photographer on the 1933 Houston-Mount […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] demonstrate his Christian faith, his great enemy Barack Obama was both a sincere and knowledgeable Christian. For the Christian Right, however, Obama was anathema. His was a liberal Christianity that had declared ‘war on Americans of faith’. (p. 112) For the Christian right, the Obama years had been a period of ‘unrelenting war on […]
[PDF file]: Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot London: Mudlark Harper Collins 2021 £20.00 (h/b) John Booth There are journalists – and then there are journalists. There’s Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who while London Mayor called his £250,000 Daily Telegraph second-job contract ‘chicken feed’.1 And then […]
[PDF file]: Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant Bernard Porter The Assange affair rumbles on. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at a cost of God knows how much to the taxpayers of Ecuador, and more to those of the UK, to pay for the police stationed around it ready to whisk him […]
[…] Adam 13 ‘DfID’s rise and fall provides lessons for government departments’ . 14 or 15 or 5 Smith International Ltd. (ASI), a spin-off from the eponymous neo- Liberal institute. A report on the website Publish What You Fund contains an analysis of how ASI spends its income. This reveals (for a period it doesn’t […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] became David Cameron’s Attorney General after the 2010 election. The only Parliamentarian who has expressed any sustained interest in the fate of Dr Kelly is the former Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker. His The Strange Death of David Kelly1 was published in 2007. Goslett acknowledges the help of Baker, whose extensive efforts […]
