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A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[PDF file]: […] Schroder’s and Lazard’s. In the second were executives from some of the nation’s most powerful corporations such ICI, Shell-Mex, the AngloIranian Oil Company (now known as BP), Cable and Wireless, and AEI (Associated Electrical Industries, then one of Britain’s major industrial groups). This coalition of forces, formed at the junction where the interests of […]
View from Bridge 89
The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop
[PDF file]: […] cooperation we now enjoy.’17 Italy’s political parties unanimously condemned Clare’s words as US interference in their country’s domestic affairs. The Washington Post called the remarks ‘an inexpli cable breach of diplomatic propriety’, and said that they would damage the prospect of a US-friendly Italian government being formed. Less attention was paid to the fact […]
View from Bridge 89
View ffrom Bridge 89
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] Bower of Stewart’s fellow ex-Etonian, Boris Johnson: The Gambler,8 Stewart amusingly pointed out that Johnson’s hero from ancient Greece, Pericles, ‘had built the Parthenon, not the Emirates Cable Car’. He also neatly summed up the otherwise blindingly obvious by describing Johnson as ‘an amoral figure operating in a much bleaker and coarser culture’. Previous […]