Whatever you think of his writings, this piece spreads a very unpleasant smell over the way we conduct ourselves, and suggests why the 'Special Relationship' is as it is and that May is in many ways driving the Trumpet's Foreign Policy.
His website http://markcurtis.info/ carries some alarming articles which appear to support Corbyn's 'accusation of blame' for the Manchester bombing.
Good stuff for a heathy debate in the pub!
PS I tried to find the 'UK Hamster (Hampster?)' wheel thread but failed.
UK recent history as seen by Mark Curtis
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Re: UK recent history as seen by Mark Curtis
This is nothing new.
Military support aid has been going on since forever, and personnel exchanges since WW2. And there's nothing wrong with Brits in US squadrons dropping bombs if Britain is also in that war. To the best of my knowledge, no exchange officer has been permitted to fly on combat ops* if his home nation was not also at war.
What has changed, as Mark points out, is that media is denying this is happening, which was never the case prior to, say, 1995. But then, the media has been lying its ass off about everything since then, not just foreign policy.
Aid and support not directly involving the military has never been admitted to since forever. That is, arms sales and the like have always been secret, administered through dodgy intermediaries. The politicians are well aware that trying to use relatively principled people like soldiers on immoral support is liable to blow up in their faces.
*I know of one who did fly Up North in the Vietnam War for a few weeks, but he had been forbidden from doing so by the Foreign Office, and they stopped him doing so as soon as they found out.
Military support aid has been going on since forever, and personnel exchanges since WW2. And there's nothing wrong with Brits in US squadrons dropping bombs if Britain is also in that war. To the best of my knowledge, no exchange officer has been permitted to fly on combat ops* if his home nation was not also at war.
What has changed, as Mark points out, is that media is denying this is happening, which was never the case prior to, say, 1995. But then, the media has been lying its ass off about everything since then, not just foreign policy.
Aid and support not directly involving the military has never been admitted to since forever. That is, arms sales and the like have always been secret, administered through dodgy intermediaries. The politicians are well aware that trying to use relatively principled people like soldiers on immoral support is liable to blow up in their faces.
*I know of one who did fly Up North in the Vietnam War for a few weeks, but he had been forbidden from doing so by the Foreign Office, and they stopped him doing so as soon as they found out.
Re: UK recent history as seen by Mark Curtis
Not 'exercised' by the flying bit - more amused by the suggestion that the May Bug had found it necessary to stiffen a floppy Trumpet 
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Re: UK recent history as seen by Mark Curtis
It would take better crumpet to stiffen a good man's trumpet! 
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Re: UK recent history as seen by Mark Curtis
He's a poet, and we didn't know it.