[PDF file]: Between The Waves The Hidden His tory of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague London: Picador, 2025, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The ‘revolution’ in the subtitle is the UK’s relationship with the EEC/EU – a huge subject, covered in great detail, in a very big book. Including notes and index, this is 544 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement […]
[PDF file]: […] after another in which police and intelligence agency abuse is not prosecuted, lawfare is encouraged and how, in extending the work of the CPS overseas under a Tory government ‘as part of this closer alignment between executive and judiciary, Starmer took on himself the responsibilities of a British diplomat’. Starmer developed a particularly close […]
[…] a major British political party suggested opposing the City of London. My treatment in issue 62 was a sketch. Here is some more detail. The back s tory W ithout seeking to confront the overseas lobby – the City– Bank of England–Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments […]
[PDF file]: […] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]
[…] CIA. We applied the Agency’s very best operational, analytic, and technical tradecraft to what is one of the largest and most intensive investigations in the Agency’s his tory. The CIA remains committed to ensuring continued access to care for affected officers and to fully investigating any reports of health incidents. (Emphasis added.) And yet […]
[PDF file]: […] now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a his tory of Christian Socialism; a two volume history of Parliament; biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson; an insufficiently critical history of the British aristocracy; and a […]
[…] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]
[…] now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a his tory of Christian Socialism; a two volume history of Parliament; biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson; an insufficiently critical history of the British aristocracy; and a […]
[…] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]
