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| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:America's non-compliance | article | "War on Terror" Extradition US | 29 April 2010 | Gareth Peirce | |
| Document:Diplomatic Protection, the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe | Article | Michael Gove Boris Johnson Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe | 14 November 2017 | Oliver Miles | Perhaps the best thing we could do for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be to take a lead in offering assistance following the earthquake in Iran on Sunday |
| Document:England prepares to leave the world | Article | Theresa May David Davis Brexit Michel Barnier | 4 November 2016 | Neal Ascherson | "If you believe you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere." Mrs May will pass into folklore with that line, just as Mrs Thatcher is remembered for "There is no such thing as society." |
| Document:My Millbank | article | Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn | 18 April 1996 | Seumas Milne | Jeremy Corbyn's Strategy & Communications Director, Seumus Milne, gives a 20-year-old perspective to the current Labour Party leadership crisis |
| Document:Syria:Whose sarin? | article | Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack 2011 Syrian Insurgency | 19 December 2013 | Seymour Hersh | In August-September 2013, Barack Obama, David Cameron and François Hollande accused Syria of killing 1,400 opponents in the suburbs of Damascus. Announcing that a red line had been crossed, they threatened to launch a punitive military campaign against Syria. Shortly after, London withdrew, then Washington, and finally Paris. |
| Document:The Dreamings of Dominic Cummings | Article | Nigel Farage Boris Johnson Brexit 2016 EU Referendum Dominic Cummings Bret Victor Hossein Yassaie | 24 October 2019 | James Meek | For Dominic Cummings the whole Brexit crisis may be a venturesome trial with disposable vessels: voters, the Conservative Party, the United Kingdom. If it doesn’t work out, there’s always California, and the rest of the solar system. |
| Document:The Framing of al-Megrahi | Article | Abdelbaset al-Megrahi Thomas Thurman Alan Feraday Thomas Hayes Vincent Cannistraro Edwin Bollier David Fieldhouse Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command Erwin Meister | 24 September 2009 | Gareth Peirce | It is not difficult to achieve a conviction of the innocent |
| Document:The Israel lobby | essay | Israel/Lobby | 23 March 2006 | John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt | A forensic examination of the power of the 'Israel Lobby' in the affairs of the USA, focusing most notably on its influence on US foreign policy and comprising an alliance of Jews, Christian Zionists and Neo-Cons |
| Document:Whitehall Farce | book review | CIA MI6 GCHQ MI5 James Rusbridger Official Secrets Act 1911 William Mountbatten-Windsor Polaris Chevaline (missile) | 12 October 1989 | Paul Foot | James Rusbridger: "Secrecy turns otherwise rational people into fascistic nutters; secrecy allows untold billions of pounds and endless energies to be wasted in unnecessary intelligence; secrecy pollutes the political process, muzzles what is left of the independent press and makes a mockery of Parliament and elections." |
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