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 […]
[…] no-one has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, the 1974-79 period, since Stephen Dorril and I wrote Lobster 11 and the expansion of that material in Smear! Wilson and the Secret State; and they were published in 1986 and 1991, before the Internet. What could be done these days with Google and Nexis-Lexis? A […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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* 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] and following the necessary hospital bureaucracy, her body was transported to north Manchester’s tahara house.4 Misaskim then asked Rabbi Yossi Jacobs and the chairman of John F. Wilson, Ferranti. a History: Volume 3: Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 (Manchester University Press, 2013). 3 4 A building where Jewish bodies are ritually cleansed. 2 Birmingham’s […]
[PDF file]: […] Sachs personnel involved with the Obama administration is at < http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/46267>. 18 Despite the recent flurry of low-level activity by the British FSA. See, for example, Harry Wilson, ‘FSA charges seven over “£2.5m insider-trading ring” , Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2010. 121 Summer 2010 comment is from the generally excellent Washington’s blog: ‘The Senate […]
[PDF file]: […] national happiness peaked’, The Independent, 17 March 2004 at or . 15 The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In […]
