The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] compelled to adopt consent rules for the storage of data from European users on US servers – is never seen as a risk to ‘Internet freedom’. Never mind that virtually all Internet software, and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: […]
[PDF file]: […] and if he did, in what capacity. The evidence here isn’t overwhelming, but on balance one would conclude he did. The most likely explanation that comes to mind is that his well above average intelligence was noted in the RAF. He was taught Danish and Norwegian and posted, after formal discharge, to Copenhagen where […]
[PDF file]: […] for inventing an interview, only to move straight over to the Telegraph, where presumably such things were not considered so important. The question that inevitably comes to mind as one reads Purnell’s book is: how on earth does he get away with it? Certainly, his carefully constructed comical toff persona is an important factor. […]
[PDF file]: […] processes have been followed correctly. (This happened in the recent notorious case of Thomas Quick – a convicted serial killer who turned out not to be. Never mind; if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over […]
[PDF file]: […] Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), re mind us what happens to a historian when the world learns, beyond all doubt, that the historian has got it wrong. Neither Stalin, nor Churchill, the two […]
[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, […]
[PDF file]: […] be an increasing reliance on paying for health care. Considering this wide-ranging and consistent approach to ordering life in the UK, the only comparison that comes to mind is with 18th century style mercantilism. Are we returning to this? A society in which wealth is based on trade, commerce and property ownership rather than […]
