[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection – but they never found any evidence. This Golitsyn s tory raises the interesting question about what counts as being an informer or an agent. Say that on one 2 Miller was one of a number of […]
[…] in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 About the collection he writes: The context of these essays, the cultural his tory of the United States, is also one of a country that has been at war for most of its history. This is a war memoir, but […]
[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the s tory of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which […]
[PDF file]: […] and Nepalese.36 The last of the UK PMCs on that US Baghdad embassy list is Control Risks Group. I will not go into detail regarding the his tory of Control Risks here but simply refer the reader to the extensive detail on pages 6 and following of my previous article on PMCs.3 7 Further […]
[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 […]
