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Peer group pressure
[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]
Apocryphilia
[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one […]
Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge
[PDF file]: […] Interpretation’, Sociological Review, volume 3 (1910). 6 4 stock market and to changes in State pension levels. This can all make for considerable anxiety, a state of mind likely to be intensified by rapid shifts in the political, economic and social environment. What had been seen as the stable and unchanging values of the […]
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
[…] role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good stuff, in other words. Available from bookshops and Amazon.co.uk 9 With the CPGB (courtesy of MI5: see the review of Christopher Andrew’s […]
Running Rings
[PDF file]: […] Spies for Hire (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008) p. 116 Cloud services market study (final report) – Ofcom or . 5 3 Bearing all this in mind, I think I will choose not to become an unpaid tendril of the intelligence gatherers. It has been asked online whether it is indeed possible to […]
The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club
[PDF file]: […] was aware of financial operations, apparently involving significant money balances, mentioned in the second expert report of East Star Capital. In this context, the Tribunal had in mind the definition and characteristics of money laundering.’ and ‘158. If substantial tests and proof of the activities of Manas Bank in money laundering had been produced […]
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock
[PDF file]: […] things would work, then he would try them and see. Failure would be down to the patient; success was his alone. What was his theory of the mind? (Though theory might dignify and elevate his thinking, such as it was.) It was quite simple and, shorn of psychiatric and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed […]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
[PDF file]: What just happened Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze London: Allen Lane, 2018, h/b, £30.00 Robin Ramsay I once heard a history professor describe another history professor I knew as ‘a very good, old-fashioned narrative historian’. I wasn’t entirely sure what he meant but I got the pejorative message. […]