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Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
The View from the Bridge
[…] As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They give investors exposure to an underlying asset without having to own it (and therefore appear on the regula tory filings that disclose the biggest holders of publicly-listed shares). The other main benefit is that swaps allow you to leverage up the bet. And here lies […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They give investors exposure to an underlying asset without having to own it (and therefore appear on the regula tory filings that disclose the biggest holders of publicly-listed shares). The other main benefit is that swaps allow you to leverage up the bet. And here lies […]
Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne
[PDF file]: […] policy establishment – the Foreign Office, the RUSI, Chatham House, MI6 etc – have led us to calamity in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere’.4 Oborne’s political trajec tory is fascinating and one can only look forward hopefully to a future book on Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and co. But what of his Complicit? Complicit opens […]
View from Bridge 89
[…] and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long his tory of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, but predictable from that source. That same day I saw this […]
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot
[PDF file]: Failures of State: The Inside S tory 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 […]
The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years
[PDF file]: […] supported Russian suspicions that the British had plotted to lure Hitler into attacking Russia. The book sold well in the USA with the sub-title, The Secret S tory of the Hess Peace Initiative and British Efforts to Strike a Deal With Hitler. Four years later Costello, 52, was found dead in his airline seat […]