Treason
Re: Treason
You got away with it the last time you did it, so you should be okay. Just don't make a habit of it.
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Re: Treason
About fifteen years ago, I wrote to HMPs Wandsworth and Pentonville to request a viewing of this apparatus being tested and was informed on official paper that NO gallows is in operation since the abolishment of the Death Penalty in 1969.
There IS a working gallows in the Isle of Man but upon sentence of Death, the subsequent appeal is commuted to Life Imprisonment.
I've seen an electric chair in an American museum, but never 'one of our own' contraptions
There IS a working gallows in the Isle of Man but upon sentence of Death, the subsequent appeal is commuted to Life Imprisonment.
I've seen an electric chair in an American museum, but never 'one of our own' contraptions
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I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
Re: Treason
Not sure about that, ambidextrous maybe.
Another one of them was (Sir) Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen's pictures. He certainly was gay, one of his boyfriends was Thingy Sewell, writes in one of the papers, used to be on Have I Got News for You.
Blunt was investigated several times, eventually he confessed. Bit of a cover up.
Very good play about him "A Question of Attribution" by Alan Bennett.
Mart
Another one of them was (Sir) Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen's pictures. He certainly was gay, one of his boyfriends was Thingy Sewell, writes in one of the papers, used to be on Have I Got News for You.
Blunt was investigated several times, eventually he confessed. Bit of a cover up.
Very good play about him "A Question of Attribution" by Alan Bennett.
Mart
Re: Philby Burgess and Maclean
Hi Steve
No they were not all gay, Anthony Burgess was, Donald MacLean was bisexual and Kim Philby was straight and an accomplished womaniser
They all met at Cambridge along with Anthony Blunt, and were recruited there. It has been suggested that E.M. Foster was responsible for their recruitment and it has since emerged that Philby tipped of both MacLean and Burgess that they were going to be arrested. And helped them escape Britain before they were caught.
Reading about it in the seventies, it was old boy and the establishment protecting their own. Burgess used to tell his gay friends he was a communist spy and this was dismissed as pub talk, MacLean was a social inadequate, but he managed to betray Britain and Americas nuclear secrets to the Russians. Both committed acts, which carried the death penalty.
Kim Philby was a different story; his father was St John Philby a world-renowned cartographer, responsible for mapping most of Saudi and that area. So good were his maps that up till satellite imagery they were produced as standard reference.
The House of Saud also gave him many gifts. However I think he could best be descried as an unpleasant individual an absentee father.
Philby got his Communist instilled into him at Cambridge and later went to Austria and had a romance with Linzi Friedman an Austrian Communist whom he married.
He next surfaced during the Spanish civil war a newspaper correspondent with openly right will sympathies and worked on Franco?s side, by the he had duped the authorities.
During the war he worked at Special Operations Executive responsible for anti Nazi propaganda, his security clearance came from Guy Burgess and Guy Liddell who was then head of MI5.
After the war Philby worked for MI6 in both London and Washington and it was only after being considered as head of MI6 that he fell under suspition, the investigator was Jane Archer and Philby was interrogated in 1952 after Burgess and MacLean defected, he was forced to resign and was compensated massively for job loss.
He then worked in the Middle East as a Newspaper Correspondent and in the mid 50s Marcus Lipton denounced him in the House of Commons. Philby was in London at the time and invited Lipton to make the comment without the benefit of Parliamentary Privilege. This Lipton refused to do and Harold Macmillan the Foreign Secretary made a statement saying Philby was above suspicion and Lipton retracted his comments.
Philiby worked in the Middle East until the early sixties when he was tipped of, that he was about to be arrested and fled to Russia.
In Russia he embarked on an affair with Melissa MacLean, Donald?s wife and began working for the KGB rising to Colonel
He later married a KGB officer Rufina and continued working for them almost till his death in 1988
Philiby was a different kettle of fish from Burgess and MacLean, in that if he had been arrested he could argue that before the war he was not spying and during and after he was only doing his job. The main resentment was on the 150 Albanians sent back by Britain to overthrow the Government of Enver Hoxha whom he betrayed. However Britain had a treaty with Russia, which precluded that sort of action, so he had a defence for that
In all three unpleasant people who got away did Britain no good
As an aside to this when it was reported in the early 80s that he was seriously ill and was coming back to Britain to die. Customs were on alert, the establishment were shitting themselves and the tabloids were six deep at the airport.
And Mart , Brian Sewll gave Blunt sanctuary when the press were houndig him , the Times gave him red wine when he defended his actions and the Sun crucified the Times,all good tabloid stuff
No they were not all gay, Anthony Burgess was, Donald MacLean was bisexual and Kim Philby was straight and an accomplished womaniser
They all met at Cambridge along with Anthony Blunt, and were recruited there. It has been suggested that E.M. Foster was responsible for their recruitment and it has since emerged that Philby tipped of both MacLean and Burgess that they were going to be arrested. And helped them escape Britain before they were caught.
Reading about it in the seventies, it was old boy and the establishment protecting their own. Burgess used to tell his gay friends he was a communist spy and this was dismissed as pub talk, MacLean was a social inadequate, but he managed to betray Britain and Americas nuclear secrets to the Russians. Both committed acts, which carried the death penalty.
Kim Philby was a different story; his father was St John Philby a world-renowned cartographer, responsible for mapping most of Saudi and that area. So good were his maps that up till satellite imagery they were produced as standard reference.
The House of Saud also gave him many gifts. However I think he could best be descried as an unpleasant individual an absentee father.
Philby got his Communist instilled into him at Cambridge and later went to Austria and had a romance with Linzi Friedman an Austrian Communist whom he married.
He next surfaced during the Spanish civil war a newspaper correspondent with openly right will sympathies and worked on Franco?s side, by the he had duped the authorities.
During the war he worked at Special Operations Executive responsible for anti Nazi propaganda, his security clearance came from Guy Burgess and Guy Liddell who was then head of MI5.
After the war Philby worked for MI6 in both London and Washington and it was only after being considered as head of MI6 that he fell under suspition, the investigator was Jane Archer and Philby was interrogated in 1952 after Burgess and MacLean defected, he was forced to resign and was compensated massively for job loss.
He then worked in the Middle East as a Newspaper Correspondent and in the mid 50s Marcus Lipton denounced him in the House of Commons. Philby was in London at the time and invited Lipton to make the comment without the benefit of Parliamentary Privilege. This Lipton refused to do and Harold Macmillan the Foreign Secretary made a statement saying Philby was above suspicion and Lipton retracted his comments.
Philiby worked in the Middle East until the early sixties when he was tipped of, that he was about to be arrested and fled to Russia.
In Russia he embarked on an affair with Melissa MacLean, Donald?s wife and began working for the KGB rising to Colonel
He later married a KGB officer Rufina and continued working for them almost till his death in 1988
Philiby was a different kettle of fish from Burgess and MacLean, in that if he had been arrested he could argue that before the war he was not spying and during and after he was only doing his job. The main resentment was on the 150 Albanians sent back by Britain to overthrow the Government of Enver Hoxha whom he betrayed. However Britain had a treaty with Russia, which precluded that sort of action, so he had a defence for that
In all three unpleasant people who got away did Britain no good
As an aside to this when it was reported in the early 80s that he was seriously ill and was coming back to Britain to die. Customs were on alert, the establishment were shitting themselves and the tabloids were six deep at the airport.
And Mart , Brian Sewll gave Blunt sanctuary when the press were houndig him , the Times gave him red wine when he defended his actions and the Sun crucified the Times,all good tabloid stuff
Jonboy
Re: Treason
Definately correct up to a few years back, 55lb of King Edwards every 3 months. However Blair & Co abolished the death penalty by default completely when they signed Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Re: Philby Burgess and Maclean
there was a tv film made about them alan bates starred ,some time ago.
Re: Philby Burgess and Maclean
Although Kim Philby never got his collar felt his father did.
Like many Arabists he was somewhat anti-semitic and stood in a Parliamentary byelection as an anti-war candidate in 1939. He was locked up for 4 months while his son worked inside the secret service and handed information to its Soviet counterpart.
Mart
Like many Arabists he was somewhat anti-semitic and stood in a Parliamentary byelection as an anti-war candidate in 1939. He was locked up for 4 months while his son worked inside the secret service and handed information to its Soviet counterpart.
Mart