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 […]
[PDF file]: […] a delicate time to move on the British people from the ‘war on terror’ mindset previous leaders and their media backers had encouraged, a belligerent state of mind challenged in 2003 by Corbyn’s friend Robin Cook when he opposed the invasion of Iraq.52 Time will tell whether such hopes for a different, more equal, […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, […]
[PDF file]: […] at a price. The ever-swelling public sector took on huge new projects to provide jobs – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided […]
[PDF file]: […] I should have made my discovery known at once. The reason I did not was that I myself was then an Army officer and knew the military mind: any discovery I claimed to have made would have been quickly swept under the carpet and buried for another thirty years.’129 I took this advice to […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] provide us with a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in the US, Kajsa Norman: 16 or <http://uk.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embedmicrochips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5?r=US&IR=T 17 See, for example, from 2007 Todd Lewan’s […]
[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. […]
