[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
[PDF file]: […] by the British Government. It is reported that Belmokhtar joined a GIA splinter group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). ‘On 44 Anthea Temple, ‘The spy who loved me’, The Guardian, 2 October, 2002, . 45 Curtis, see note 43. United Nations Security Council Committee, ‘Pursuant to resolutions, 1267 (1999) and 1989 […]
[PDF file]: […] the files proved government mind control activities or some such. 10 or 11 or 12 Roderick Russell introduced us to this. See his and his essay ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . 13 5 was anything but another identikit US imperialist president. Here he is recently in […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay 18 August 2026 Who is my enemy’s enemy? ‘The Russia question’ (pre 1990, the Soviet question) – viz. since they are antiAmerican and anti-NATO, should we not support them? – remains an issue on the left of British politics. For some the answer is ‘Yes: my enemy’s enemy […]
