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by B1FF_PSUVM 592 days ago
For other reasons, I had come cross Cummings substack a couple of weeks ago - highly instructive, no wonder he was ejected from UK gov circles ...
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    I explored the law. Cutting a long story short I figured out a way in which one could (legally) hire someone to pop around to Gould’s house in the middle of the night and go through his bins the night before bin day. For roughly a year I read many documents from the Blair inner circle including notes from Blair. Many of them were market research about the euro. I saw Gould writing memos for Blair who would try out ideas (remember ‘the bridge between Europe and America’?) then Gould tested the results. I tried to counter these moves but, obviously, without being able to tell people that my ‘hunches’ about what Blair was up to were not hunches. For a few thousand quid a month I had a window into the Government’s secret plans.
It's fascinating.
Thanks, I didn't see that one.

Guess he didn't get the "gentlemen do not read each other's mail" memo - may not be a gentleman at all ...

Yea, maybe shouldn't have gone to Barnard Castle to get his eyes tested though.