[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]
[PDF file]: […] had ‘preferred to deal with Sikorski’s infinitely more intransigent successors’ over the location of the post-war Polish border. 19 A year later, the British prime minister Harold Wilson asked Sir Robin Cooper, a former pilot working in the cabinet office, to review Air Marshal Sir John Slessor’s 1943 inquiry. David Irving had noted the […]
[PDF file]: […] p. 114 of Lobster 59. 2 Will Hutton, ‘The banks have refused to mend their ways. Beware the next crash’, The Observer, 13 June 2010. 3 Harry Wilson, ‘Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan ridiculed by City investors’, Daily Telegraph, 1 October 2010. 52 Winter 2010 partly dictated by the Coalition government’s covert provisioning against […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]
[PDF file]: […] Even after he had given up his Oman command, Smiley kept in touch with the Sultan, for example, writing to him in January 1969, complaining about the Wilson Labour government. He looked forward to ‘getting rid of Wilson and his gang who have done so much harm to our country by forcing on us […]
[PDF file]: […] the security services had systematically destroyed some of their records which would not be retained to be examined by future historians in the long distance future. The Wilson committee in 1981 came across two egregious examples of this namely in relation to SOE and PWE records which in one case had been accidentally and […]
[PDF file]: […] Edward Hulton (publisher of the Picture Post and part of one of the earliest British intelligence news fronts);23 • Admiral Lord Cunningham; • and Field Marshall Lord Wilson. This unlikely grouping was unstable and at the end of 1956 Smith, Fothergill, Edwards, Ammon and others resigned, alleging, inter alia, that Common Cause was becoming […]
[PDF file]: Ten Years Hard Labour Chris Williamson Lola Books, 2022, £19.00 ISBN 978-3-944203-48-5 John Booth This is a revealing and powerful book by a Labour MP who vocally supported the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and paid the price by losing his career. It’s an angry book because he says that this loyalty was not reciprocated when […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
