[PDF file]: […] catastrophic financial implosion of major banks and their ilk, most notably those in the USA and Britain. Much has been written about the failures of formal regula tory regime for banks and their ilk, but surprisingly little media and political attention has been given to the failure of the part played by the general […]
[PDF file]: […] the British State and society. Seeking to identify who was behind all this, Matthews very rightly points to a complex of senior armed forces personnel, intelligence officers, Tory MPs and Peers, as well as leading landowners and members of the Royal Household. But the peace party was not limited to these groups. It also […]
[PDF file]: […] is Exposed’, although no plot as described by Beloff existed. At this point the campaign around Prentice started using these themes. The person who reignited the s tory on the failure to publish the Underhill Report (at this point it was now twenty-nine pages) on the eve of the 1979 election was Neville Sandelson […]
[PDF file]: […] protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with the Qatada-Hamza-linked GIA. The s tory given to the authorised media by the vested intelligence agencies is that Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the new bin Laden, nicknamed ‘the uncatchable’ by French intelligence (Algeria […]
[…] MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
[PDF file]: […] of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, ‘Don’t let the buggers get you down’. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir’s 2012 trial and later last year, when he was runner-up […]
[PDF file]: […] values which keep these folk in thrall – capitalism and capitalist democracy. The Bilderberg Network would be a more apt title for a book charting the his tory of this glittering nexus and its detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the […]
[PDF file]: […] casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/ Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially […]
