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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] 1839. Henderson emailed on 6 April: ‘ Starmer is my MP. Mmmm . . . I wonder if I should visit him at his surgery and re mind him of the time when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions and how he refused to take action after Tony and Cherie Blair had attempted […]
South of the Border
[PDF file]: […] interest a television news report by the BBC’s John Simpson on the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan. One part of that report has particularly stayed in my mind. For a brief moment in the video, sacks of currency – Simpson called them ‘bales of banknotes’ – were seen on the floor of a helicopter. […]
In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
View ffrom Bridge 89
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Oh-oh By some distance the biggest story I have seen recently is that told on CBS’s 60 Minutes series recently, Scott Pelley’s ‘Havana Syndrome mystery continues as a lead military investigator says bar […]
Reporting Trump
[PDF file]: […] crowd to take up the chant of ‘Go home, Jim’ while he was live on TV. People ‘uttered the most horrible things that could possibly come to mind’. Nevertheless, he insists not all the crowd were so hostile with some coming up to him and apologising after the rally, some even wanting selfies. At […]
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[…] always easy meat for the orthodoxy of the City.) What was inflation between 1945 and 1970, 2-4% per annum on average? Who, in his or her right mind, would not trade off 4% inflation for full employment and 2% growth? Vaisey’s vision Another version of the same basic perception that a great watershed had […]
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron
[PDF file]: […] really mean anything? Could it not have been simple braggadocio (success has many fathers)? Marcello was then an old man on the foothills of dementia, and his mind was wandering. We’ll probably never know one way or the other, not that this is that important. Working from this starting point Waldron then cherrypicks his […]
Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…
[PDF file]: […] (George Robertson was selected and elected instead) and also declined Leith when a last minute vacancy arose in February 1979 (he was unable to make up his mind). The seat went instead to Ron Brown.9 With hindsight these were clearly significant miscalculations. Although Callaghan duly took Labour down to an arguably unnecessary defeat by […]