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lob28liberalapocalypsepdf
[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
[PDF file]: […] Second Battle of Alamein. Despite German Jewish origins, he served post-war in the British army campaign against Jewish insurgents in Palestine, 1945– 1948. Olivia Frank’s life s tory, variously published as Naked Spy Girl, The Mossad Spy, Thatcher’s Prisoner, and currently available from Amazon as The Third Direction,1 describes how she was prescribed oestrogen […]
Enron accounting… and how to prevent it
[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 […]
A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[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 […]
The Atlantic Semantic
[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 […]
lob28liberalapocalypsepdf
[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas
[PDF file]: […] rich and super rich. The short answer in 1945 was that Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 actually began working for the Labour government. This is the s tory that Daniel Lomas chronicles, breaking considerable welcome new ground in the process. He makes the point that accounts of the Attlee government have usually focussed on […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
[PDF file]: […] Second Battle of Alamein. Despite German Jewish origins, he served post-war in the British army campaign against Jewish insurgents in Palestine, 1945– 1948. Olivia Frank’s life s tory, variously published as Naked Spy Girl, The Mossad Spy, Thatcher’s Prisoner, and currently available from Amazon as The Third Direction,1 describes how she was prescribed oestrogen […]