Sex records

Well, that got your attention… Lord Mountbatten’s biographer, the historian Andrew Lownie, has obtained recently released FBI documents concerning Mountbatten’s sex life. The reports reveal that Mountbatten was a multiple adulterer and a predatory homosexual at a time when homosexuality was illegal in the UK. Any of this could have …

Operation Yellowhammer

On 18 August, the Sunday Times carried a front page story based on leaked government documents (Codename: Operation Yellowhammer). This secret report concerns the consequences of a No Deal Brexit. Most of the subsequent media attention has been on possible fuel, medicine and food shortages. But one line of the …

Trust No One (2)

In February we reported on the extradition from Switzerland of MI6 conman Mark Acklom. On 7 August, Acklom, 46, was jailed for five years and eight months for fraud at Bristol Crown Court. Acklom had originally been charged with defrauding Carolyn Woods, 62, out of £750,000. He had initially pleaded …