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John Stonehouse book reviews
[PDF file]: . . . and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True S tory of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – […]
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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]
Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt
[PDF file]: […] the interests of transparency let me make it clear that I know Chris Williamson. That came about as a result of seeking to work voluntarily in a Tory marginal constituency in the 2017 general election. I left messages with Labour organisers in the nearest North London one to my safe Labour one, but it […]
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[…] three cheers for words in favour of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was […]
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[…] form of cash accounts which can be used to meet immediate requirements for liquidity. From the Bank’s perspective, they are the foundation of both of our statu tory policy objectives, namely monetary and financial stability. (Emphasis added.) If they’re being paid interest to hold the reserves, no wonder the banks or 3 or 4 […]
The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire
[PDF file]: The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold S tory James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire London: Gibson Square, £12.99, p/b T he Conservative Party had already lost the Rochester and Strood by-election in the hours before its former director of communications left prison early on the morning of 21 November. Whether the timing of Andy Coulson’s release […]
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[…] Brie ng; Heads to White House Just before 7:00 a.m., Vice President Dick Cheney sits in the library of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observa tory in Washington, DC, for his regular CIA brie ng. His solo brie ng is more detailed than the president’s because he asks for more material. According […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] an early recruit to the BAP at the same time as Naughtie and Peter (now Lord) Mandelson.8 The new BBC trust chair, Rona Fairhead, is a close Tory friend of Chancellor George Osborne. Lord Stevenson, a key figure in the BAP network and in the 2008 banking collapse, appointed Fairhead to her first senior […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a s tory about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of […]