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"Among the people Sharab dealt with were 'Tiny' Rowlands of Lonrho, and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. She was an acceptable face abroad for the Libyan regime, and became Gaddafi's personal envoy." Robin Ramsay reviews Daad Sharab's "The Colonel and I" 🦞 https://t.co/pIXwjpaIIS https://t.co/7DxDe1S3Zt

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"Blair’s wished–for ‘New Labour’ was merely a passing fad. Minkin explains how, despite appearances to the contrary, in the end Blair was no match for a Labour Party of entrenched traditions." Colin Challen, on Lewis Minkin's "The Blair Supremacy" 🦞 https://t.co/JFBEUsa7s2 https://t.co/bCcO0SuQvE

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"Six short books for the price of one, over 500 pages long, this a book to read and keep for reference. His chronicle of the British Far Right is detailed, thorough and insightful." John Newsinger, on "Failed Führers" by Graham Macklin (@macklin_gd) 🦞 https://t.co/NN5N8u6Js1 https://t.co/0KjFf3lvXI

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New review. "To enlist Orwell for the GOP/Christian/Zionist Right, one must suppress his politics. Orwell saw Zionism as a form of settler colonialism in the tradition of European Imperialism." John Newsinger, on David Rubin's "Confronting Radicals" 🦞 https://t.co/HB4iysrgTD https://t.co/Vmgh34hFvB

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"Sillars admires Alex Salmond, but sees him as letting an admiring cult flourish and intolerant of dissent. Sillars sees similar control freakery in Nicola Sturgeon." @JohnBooth2017 on Jim Sillars's "A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey" 🦞 https://t.co/p7DncoSY6g https://t.co/3lesKYS0x3

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"The painful saga of a traumatized parent being denied access to the truth of his daughter’s death – and confronting the ugly realities of realpolitik." @JohnBooth2017 on "The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice," by Swire and Biddulph 🦞 https://t.co/uex9k4QbJo https://t.co/2qaVpe197J

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"In 1969, Smiley wrote to the Sultan of Oman, complaining about Harold Wilson's government, "who have done so much harm to our country with their socialist policies" John Newsinger reviews Clive Jones's "The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley" 🦞 https://t.co/Bpf6r0alNa https://t.co/onZyG1QlaN

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"Rid suggests Russian efforts to influence US elections didn't work. Are 'likes' and 'shares' just signs of preaching to the converted?" Colin Challen reviews Thomas Rid's "Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare" 🦞 https://t.co/DLUFLaoki5 https://t.co/NllsrhvjKW

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"Jeffrey Epstein wanted to have his head and penis cryogenically frozen, so that he could be resurrected with them grafted onto a new, youthful, and perfect body." Simon Matthews (@simonplatow) reviews Douglas @Rushkoff's "Survival of the Richest" 🦞 https://t.co/QgbdNciEjN https://t.co/7SchSOCXdH

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"A devastating exposé, showing Stirling was an incompetent egomaniac, who took credit for other mens' achievements, and irresponsibly endangered the lives of those he commanded." John Newsinger reviews Gavin Mortimer's "David Stirling: The Phoney Major" https://t.co/zcWWBHB1DK https://t.co/j7gxe2v5Sw