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Consultants Challen
[…] ‘Britain could supply the expertise of the City of London banking sector to drive reforms and attract private capital to financing the clean energy transition.’15 Bearing in mind Mark Lowcock’s remarks above, how likely is it that the UK government will be able to deliver a good or even decent job at turning vastly […]
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl
Well, how did we get here?
[PDF file]: […] he had succeeded. ‘Heath had been very impressed, when visiting Germany, by Willy Brandt’s regular round-table consultations with the unions and the German system of co-partnership; his mind began moving towards establishing a similar relationship in Britain by which the unions should be given an acknowledged role in the running of the economy.’ 24 […]
Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation
[PDF file]: […] his report that the police must stop using the word victim and start using the word complainant because the police must approach these cases with an open mind. It is their duty to investigate whether or not it leads towards the suspect or indeed away from the suspect.’ 16 The abandoned guidelines referred to […]
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer
[PDF file]: […] a world war and rationing, he parties hard. Keeping up with his endless social activities (he is always dining, noon and night, and continually drinking) brings to mind the observation of how difficult it would be for any reader to try and emulate the alcohol intake of James Bond, and remain sober.2 In the […]
View from Bridge 89
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]
The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update
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[PDF file]: The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update Robin Ramsay I researched and wrote The Clandestine Caucus (listed on the website as CC) in the years following the publication of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. It continued that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the […]
The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan
[PDF file]: […] The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is tempting to think that Golitsyn must have been sent to mess with Angleton’s mind. But all reports agree that he brought little useful material and talked such nonsense, it seems unlikely to me that the Soviets would have sent someone […]