20th Century
Nazi missiles threaten Israel
Why did I choose to write this; long forgotten reports of missiles in Egypt and the way the press didn’t seem to take it very seriously at the time. It is time for a closer [more…]
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20th Century
Tyler Gatewood Kent
Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 2
Part 1 was the background to the origins of the Right Club and introduced some of the members who via various other shady organisations eventually joined the club. The very first fascist organisation in the [more…]
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 1
In early April 1933 Guy Liddell of MI5 visited the Berlin Political Police to discuss intelligence co-operation with the Nazi regime and more specifically its security apparatus regarding the Communist threat. His guide was Dr [more…]
20th Century
The Soviets started the Six Day War
Many here will be familiar with the military details of the 1967 six day war but less well known are the diplomatic shenanigans that went along with it and actually caused it in the first [more…]
Elections
Peterborough by Election, More Statistics
New data Peterborough Council published what seems to be an unprecedented amount of data about the recent by election. They gave statistics by polling station, in local elections we get data for wards but never [more…]
Elections
The Peterborough by-election statistics
Introduction With all the controversy over the Peterborough by-election and some associated allegations of impropriety it may be time to take a look at some numbers. The by-election was caused by a recall petition, the [more…]
Conservatives
PR counting – d’Hondt and STV systems
After perusing the results of the Euro Elections I just about feel confident enough to explain how the two different types of PR counting work. Northern Ireland, in common with the Republic, use the Single [more…]
Conservatives
Euro Elections 10 – the Results vs. the Predictions
As expected, The Brexit Party won by a considerable margin, not that you would be aware of that from listening to either Sly or Al-Jabeeba. Chuckup’s shower have been obliterated, not even a sniff of [more…]