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View from Bridge copy
The view from the bridge
[…] 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 […]
In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
[PDF file]: […] 24 September 2017 he is recording that ‘I have lost my respect for him. He is a clown, a self-centred ego, an embarrassing buffoon, with an untidy mind and sub-zero diplomatic judgement. He is an international stain on our reputation’. And to make matters even worse, he ‘thinks he is the next Churchill’. (p. […]
War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes
[PDF file]: […] just giving away part of the power of the state which NuLab were supposed to be trying to articulate in the interests of the British people (never mind the less well off/ disadvantage/deprived/poor/working class – pick a term). Such privatisation speaks of extremely low self-esteem: for we – the state and politicians – are […]
Book reviews
[…] us this about Sarah Brown and the spin doctors, Damian McBride and Charlie Whelan: ‘The demure public image was the front of a woman with a steely mind who was fiercely protective of her husband and family. She formed a strong, and to some at No 10 surprising, alliance with Damian McBride and Charlie […]
Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant
[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]
undercover cops book
Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson
[PDF file]: […] Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to re mind me of what he had once been before his sad decline, as evidenced by the appalling Corbyn volume. And this was before his 500+ page perverted […]