Paul Theroux and a meander through the British elite and spook circles

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https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1 ... 2071541762

PAUL THEROUX wrote a *weird* book in 2005:

The novel Blinding Light covers

• Rites of sex magic & sexual shame

• Lynn & Evelyn de Rothschild

• Vernon Jordan & President Clinton

• Alan Dershowitz

• Princess Diana's weird death

Is there more to Paul Theroux than we know?

https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1 ... 6131212292

In an amazing coincidence, the book reviewer, ADAM MARS-JONES, was accused by Scallywag in connection an alleged UK pedo ring.

The ring was allegedly run by boys' home boss John Allen with Lord McAlpine, Derek Laud, police boss Gordon Anglesea and others
https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/showth ... p?tid=1337

https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1 ... 5034813441

• In a further amazing coincidence, Paul Theroux's son, LOUIS THEROUX, made his name on UK TV interviewing:

• pedophile Jimmy Savile,

• pedophile Max Clifford,

• alleged rapists Neil & Christine Hamilton,

• he has also made documentaries about Pedophiles, Nazis, Zionists

Paul Theorux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)... He is the father of British authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel and Louis Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.

...His brothers are Eugene, Alexander, Joseph and Peter..

..After he finished his university education, Theroux joined the Peace Corps in 1963 as a teacher in Malawi.[7][8] A new program, the Peace Corps had sent its first volunteers overseas in 1961. Theroux helped a political opponent of Prime Minister Hastings Banda escape to Uganda. For this, Theroux was expelled from Malawi and thrown out of the Peace Corps. He was declared persona non grata by Banda in Malawi for sympathizing with Yatuta Chisiza.[9] As a consequence, his later novel Jungle Lovers, which concerns an attempted coup in the country, was banned in Malawi for many years.

He moved to Uganda in 1965 to teach English[10] at Makerere University, where he also wrote for the magazine Transition. While at Makerere, Theroux began his friendship with Rajat Neogy, founder of Transition Magazine, and novelist V.S. Naipaul, then a visiting scholar at the university.[11][12][13] During his time in Uganda, an angry mob at a demonstration threatened to overturn the car in which his pregnant wife was riding, and Theroux decided to leave Africa...

..When Theroux was in Uganda, his friends found him a teaching position at Makerere University in Kampala. There he met Anne Castle, a British graduate student teaching at an upcountry girls' secondary school in Kenya, via Voluntary Service Overseas.[19][20][2] They married in 1967. After leaving Asia and Dorset, they moved to South London, England in 1971,.. They had two sons: Marcel and Louis, both of whom are writers and documentarians. Theroux and Castle divorced in 1993.

Theroux married a second time to Sheila Donnelly, on November 18, 1995. His wife runs a luxury travel/hotel PR agency.[21] They reside in Hawaii and Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Sheila Donnelly Theroux's Travel Agency - Partners https://www.sheiladonnelly.com/partners-1

Catherine St. Germans

Festivals & Special Events
Cathy is an organizer and writer. She was co-founder and director of the Port Eliot Festival for 13 years, which mixed literature, fashion, film, music and food into a new style of gathering that changed the festival scene in the UK. Catherine worked with artists such as Gloria Steinem, Martin Scorsese and Grayson Perry and brands such as Hermès, Chloe, Mac, Bumble and Bumble and Fortnum & Mason. She studied fashion at St Martins School of Art in London and has written for many publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, Porter. She lives in Cornwall and Hawaii and is the Chair of the Programming Committee for the Merwin Conservancy, a nonprofit in Hawaii, and organizes gatherings.

More about Catherine St. Germans in this Daily Mail article:
Earl's family fury as his young widow leaves stately home with treasures: Relatives tell of 'concerns' that inheritance is being 'chopped about' by his second wife https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... -home.html

This week, the removals men have been at magnificent Port Eliot House in Cornwall to move out Cathy Wilson — the magazine journalist who became a countess when she wed the Earl of St Germans in 2005. That’s because her husband, Peregrine, died last year at the age of 75, and she has to make way for his grandson, Albert, who became the 11th Earl of St Germans at the tender age of 11...

Albert’s mother, Bianca, an ex-model and the former fiancee of Earl Spencer, is worried that, among the furniture and other possessions being taken away in a fleet of removals vehicles, are family heirlooms that should be kept at Port Eliot for Albert...

Lady St Germans’ departure brings to an end an awkward situation in which she has been sharing the 123-room house, which has 85 chimneys and a roof covering half an acre, with Albert, Bianca and her 14-year-old twins, Ruby and Violet, for the past few months. Cathy, 47, is understood to be moving to a house 30 miles away in Fowey that is also owned by the estate. ..

The 6,000-acre estate near Saltash is famous for the bohemian Port Eliot arts festival that is held there each summer.

It has been inherited by Albert, who turned 13 this month, because his party-loving father, Lord [Jago] Eliot, who first set up the festival, was found dead in the bath at the age of 40 in 2006 after suffering an epileptic fit.

..It is believed that Bianca will keep the festival going despite the departure of Cathy, who became heavily involved in its organisation.

Three years ago, I disclosed that Albert’s grandfather planned to sell the estate to his friend Prince Charles, who wanted to convert the house into an arts centre. However, the heir to the throne pulled out of the deal in 2015 after Cathy boasted about it on the festival’s website.

Cathy's late husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine ... St_Germans

Peregrine Nicholas Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans (2 January 1941 – 15 July 2016), was a British peer and founder of the Elephant Fayre and Port Eliot Lit Fest...

..In 1963, he became a partner in Seltaeb, the company established to oversee the distribution of Beatles merchandise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seltaeb

Seltaeb was a company set up in 1963, by Nicky Byrne (né Douglas Anthony Nicholas Byrne) to exclusively look after merchandising interests on behalf of Brian Epstein, who managed NEMS Enterprises and The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

Re Brian Epstein: MK Beatles, MI6, Counter Culture Mind Control, and Elite organised child-sex rings by @kestrel9 https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3082869/17262353

https://thenumbernineblog.files.wordpre ... amid11.jpg

We know that at the release party of Sergeant Pepper at May 19th 1967 at Brian Epstein's flat also Jimmy Savile was present. He also was good friends with the bealtes at least till the death of Brian Epstein. http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1967 ... atles.html

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/elephant ... 81-86.html

The Elephant Fayre began in 1981as a small scale Fayre which featured a mix of music, theatre and visual arts . .. Hard drug use and a "brew crew " element had began to destroy the community that had freely moved from festival to festival during the Stonehenge years and the feeling within the "Peace Convoy " was no longer what it had been in those days- in fact many of the original members of the original Peace Convoy which travelled to Greenham Common in 1982 had left by 1986....

Rick Worthy , who was one of the driving forces in organising the festival from 81 to 86 , has this to say about the Convoy

"The ONLY reason the festival folded was the Peace Convoy !
A very misnamed bunch of thugs. They caused so much trouble in this village and those nearby too. They were violent, selling smack, child prostitution -yes- no kidding- and setting fire to trees, smashing up the school, breaking into the Doctors surgery among other assorted stuff..."

Sid Rawle obituary https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/sep ... e-obituary

A big burly man with a mane of ginger and a powerful voice to match, Sid Rawle, who has died aged 64 of a heart attack, achieved tabloid infamy as the "King of the Hippies". ..Rawle – an unmistakable and charismatic figure who often dressed in long robes or monk outfits – played a prominent role in the squatting and commune movement of the 1960s, in the free festivals at Windsor and Stonehenge in the 70s, and in the birth of the Peace Convoy and the new age travellers movement...

After spending some time in St Ives, Cornwall, hanging out with beatniks, he moved to London in the mid-60s and set up what the writer Richard Neville called an "ultra-hippy cult" known as the Hyde Park Diggers. By the spring of 1968, the Diggers had more than 200 members, who played a prominent role in the squatting movement and, in September 1969, participated in the six-day occupation by the London Street Commune of 144 Piccadilly, a neglected 100-room mansion.

Sid was soon summoned to the Beatles' headquarters to meet John Lennon, who offered him custodianship of an island he had bought in 1967 in Clew Bay, off the coast of County Mayo. In 1971 Sid recruited a motley group of some 30 people to start a new life there. The tiny island of Dorinish was, it turned out, virtually uninhabitable and plagued by powerful storms. Yet somehow they survived there for almost two years, living in tents before abandoning the project...

Hmm.. anyone getting a 'spooks' vibe ?

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heri ... -1.3758949

In autumn of 1969, Skerries in north Dublin was abuzz with potential new residents. A group of hippies and squatters from London were preparing to buy St Patrick’s Island, a small island off the coast, with a view to establishing a commune of 500 people... The Irish Times reported that five trustees were named in the deal; Harris, the American communist Harvey Matusow, the poet and American counterculture icon Allen Ginsberg, and Sid Rawle...

The fifth trustee was their finical backer, Swami Vishnu Devananda, also known as Vishnudevananda Saraswati, the peace activist, yoga teacher and disciple of Swami Sivananda. Two years later, Saraswati flew a “peace plane” from Boston to Northern Ireland, where he and the actor Peter Sellers went to the Unity flats in Belfast to spread a message of peace and love. “..

When Indian parliamentarians saw a CIA plot in the Beatles’ stay at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram https://scroll.in/magazine/869696/when- ... gis-ashram

Despite the adulation and enthusiasm of the growing band of Beatles fans in India, their trip to Rishikesh was not without its controversies. There were many people in the country who were openly hostile to both Maharishi [Mahesh Yogi] and the arrival of the rock band and other celebrities from the West in his ashram. In the Lok Sabha, the elected Lower House of the Indian Parliament, the Opposition went up in arms alleging that the yogi was in cahoots with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and that many of his guests from abroad were actually foreign spies...

Ironically, as wire services across the world buzzed with the news of the Beatles and Mia Farrow in the Maharishi’s ashram, it provoked an angry outburst from the Los Angeles-based guru Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati who had been the first Indian holy man to approach the Fab Four while they were shooting their film Help! in the Bahamas three years ago. ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnudevananda_Saraswati

Vishnudevananda Saraswati (31 December 1927 – 9 November 1993) was a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. .. Vishnudevananda was a peace activist who rode in several "peace flights" over places of conflict, including the Berlin Wall prior to German reunification..

In 2007, his long-serving assistant, Julie Salter, reported sexual abuse against her by the guru; she published details of her experiences in 2019, leading at least 14 other women to report their experiences of similar abuse by Vishnudevananda... Salter and 14 other women described their experiences, including alleged rape, to the BBC journalist and Sivananda yoga teacher Ishleen Kaur. Salter stated that when she told Vishnudevananda she did not understand his instruction to lie down next to him, he replied "Tantra yoga", implying some form of spiritual sexual activity...


On 30 August 1971, Vishnudevananda flew from Boston to Northern Ireland in his Peace Plane,[21] a twin-engine Piper Apache plane painted by artist Peter Max. Upon landing, he was joined by actor Peter Sellers.[22] Later that same year, on 6 October, he took off with his co-pilot Bren Jacobson, who had been with him during the entire trip, from Tel Aviv to fly over the war-ridden Suez Canal and was buzzed by Israeli jets. The same thing happened with the Egyptian Air Force on the other side of the Canal. He continued eastward, "bombing" Pakistan and Bangladesh with flowers and peace leaflets.[14] On 15 September 1983 Vishnudevananda flew over the Berlin Wall, from West to East Berlin, in a highly publicized and dangerous mission to promote peace...

Peter Max, did you say? Posts here: https://searchvoat.co/search.php?t=%22p ... um=on&b=on including:

Happy Earth Day - another weird UN ritual from Pedos Inc. ? viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2660

Cruise liners, Disney, the Autism Channel, the art world - Ted Arison, Charles Bronfman and George Soros. Getting closer to the Ari Behn connection. https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagateuncensored/3579843

Another 'suicide, wife of pop artist Peter Max with connections to the Park West Foundation, partners of Michigan Department of Human Services and the Prince's Trust International https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3271685

Peter Sellers?

Say it ain't so: Stanley Kubrick, serial pedo-rapist? (CDAN) https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/2620656/13215127

Another interesting lead:

"He later ordered her to sleep with the much much older foreign born co-star on the movie who would go on to have an A list career. That co-star injured her severely and production had to be stopped for a week to allow her to recover."

The actor is revealed to have been Peter Sellers.

Most people think of Peter Sellers as the weird, lovable, bumbling comedian who starred in The Pink Panther series, in The Party, and of course, in Dr. Strangelove.

What is less known is that Peter Sellers in his private life was a particularly nasty, abusive piece of work:

https://people.com/archive/peter-seller ... l-17-no-4/

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Port Eliot Festival, St Germans, Cornwall, Britain - Barbara Hulanicki, Stephen Jones, and Catherine St Germans judge the children's fashion show and prom parade, at the Wardrobe Department https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/ ... 4-3986010j

Left to right, CATHERINE ST.GERMANS and CALANDRA CALDECOTT at a charity lunch organised in aid of ASAP (African Solutions to African Problems) held at the Louise T Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, London W11 on 23rd June 2010. https://donfeatures.photoshelter.com/im ... oN5dvu1e1o

Left to right, ZAZA GUIREY an the COUNTESS OS ST.GERMANS at a lunch in aid of the charity African Solutions to African Problems (ASAP) held at the Louise T Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, London W11 on 21st May 2014. https://donfeatures.photoshelter.com/im ... 0voo_1_iGU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Blouin

Louise Thérèse Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is owner of Louise Blouin Media, which she founded.. In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year.[1]

Blouin later married John MacBain and the couple acquired Auto Hebdo, a classified car trading magazine, in 1987. The business grew into Trader Classified Media. Although the couple separated in 2000, Blouin did not sell her remaining shareholding until 2004.[3] After the separation she became CEO of the London auction house Phillips de Pury, owned by her new companion Simon de Pury; in December 2002, after a year, she resigned.[3] She started Louise Blouin Media in 2003, and moved into art publications.

In 2005 Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organisation for creativity and the arts.[4] In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in Shepherd's Bush in west London.[1]

Blouin married Mathew Kabatoff, who worked for the Louise Blouin Foundation, in France in June 2011..

In 2016, her name appeared in the Panama Papers as registered owner of five companies in the British Virgin Islands.[6] She commented, "I didn't even know. . . It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can't assume everyone with a BVI [company] has done something wrong"...

In 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss foundation.

Global Leaders of Tomorrow - Class of 1993 https://web.archive.org/web/20150513173 ... Of1993.pdf

Long list, includes:

Tony Blair; Richard Branson; Edgar Bronfman; Bono; Gordon Brown; William H. Gates - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Christian Lacroix

https://web.archive.org/web/20150511132 ... -community

The GLT community was launched in 1993 in response to the need for a new approach to global leadership in the post cold war era. ..The community was discontinued at the end of 2003 and inspired the creation of the Forum of the Young Global Leaders.

The Forum of Young Global Leaders Foundation Board Members http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/ ... embers.pdf

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway
Howard Cox, Advisory Partner, Greylock
Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Alliance Trust, United Kingdom
Ellana Lee, Vice-President and Managing Editor, Asia-Pacific, CNN International, Hong Kong SAR
Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo!, USA
Lorenzo A. Mendoza, Chief Executive Officer, Empresas Polar
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, The Carlyle Group
Jimmy Wales, Founder and Trustee, Wikimedia Foundation
Zhang Yichen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited

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"Bowie, Eliot, Jago, Coco, and Carinthia relaxing in Cornwall in 1981" – by Hugh Gilbert https://www.reddit.com/r/DavidBowie/com ... laxing_in/

Remembering David Bowie at St Germans https://www.newartexaminer.net/remember ... t-germans/

Yesterday, on the train from Penzance to Paddington, as I passed the tiny station of St Germans, I looked back, and high over the the estuary bathed in the searing dawn light, was a perfect rainbow stretching over the rolling green lawns of Port Eliot, ancestral home of the Earls of St Germans. Port Eliot itself
is not visible from the train, but so very visible in my mind’s eye and my memories. It was here I introduced Peregrine St Germans, the owner of Port Eliot, to David Bowie, in 1981. It was on this lawn I photographed us all smiling and laughing in anticipation of a relaxed country weekend. David had a great love of Cornwall, its myths and its legends, so when I heard he was planning to take his son Joe (as he was then called) on a sojourn to the south-west, and knowing that my friend, Peregrine, was keen to have him play at his festival, the Elephant Fayre, I suggested a long weekend at an historic country house would give them the opportunity to discuss the possibility, plus a chance for me to catch up with my dear friend, Corinne Schwab, (known to friends as Coco), who was David’s longtime PA, right hand, and trusted companion.

I had met David through my friendship with Coco in the late 1970’s, and had shared many good times with them both.I’d travelled with them on a chartered boat up the Italian coast, watched David and his band perform at several concerts from the stage side wings, visited some of his film sets, hung out in homes in New York and Switzerland, and mine in Warwickshire, play Grandmother’s Footsteps and Scrabble, and even be styled in London by David for my first model shoot with a then unknown photographer called Mario Testino. (David had seen my portfolio of photos and pronounced them all ‘rubbish’. “Rinthy”, he said (his pet nickname for me), “there’s this young Peruvian guy who’s just done some pictures for me – I think he’s really good – will you let me arrange a shoot for you?”. One of the attributes that David had, and I have not heard enough about in all the tributes and obituaries that poured in last January when the world woke up to the news of his tragic and untimely death, was that David was SO kind. He did not have to arrange anything for me, I was not his girlfriend, nor his protege, just a friend of his own best friend, Coco, and that was enough for him. He was also very funny, with a wicked sense of humour.

Once on the set of ‘The Hunger’ a very old man approached me and said he was terribly sorry to bother me, but he was David’s father and as David couldn’t be on the set that day, he had been asked to look after me. It was only because everyone around us was sniggering, that I realized it was in fact David in full ageing Methuselah make-up. Later, when I left the modelling and acting world to be an unknown journalist in Los Angeles, he allowed me to do an interview with him in a music magazine. That interview put me on the journalistic map in America, and (in pre-internet days!) brought more commissions and just enough money to put the down payment on an apartment. He was always doing kind acts for people he liked, and the Testino shoot was just one. To my eternal regret, (and Mario’s embarrassment) the negatives were lost at the lab, so David’s hand at tweaking my Anthony Price dress, and Coco’s assurances that my lipstick was not smudged, were lost forever, however the memory remains, and surely that is what matters in the end.

So we gathered at Port Eliot, David, Coco, myself,Joe (then about 10, and later to become the respected film maker Duncan Jones), and Marion, Joe’s nanny and family friend. The weekend did not start auspiciously. Peregrine had some fixed views on children eating with grown ups and assumed that the four of us would sit down for dinner on Friday night (under the Rembrandt and drinking Leoville Barton) and Marion and Joe would “eat in the nursery”. When I found out – minutes before their arrival – I was horrified. “David is here on a family holiday – he’s a post divorce dad, and the whole point is that he sees Joe as much as possible. Marion is an integral part of the family. There is no way that David will want to eat in separate rooms”. Peregrine was adamant and put on his best ‘I am the 10th Earl of St Germans – this is my house so what I say goes’ expression. “I have lunch at one and dinner at eight, and a no-children under 15 rule at each”. I threatened to leave and take my friends with me to a nearby Cornwallian hotel, and grudgingly, Peregrine agreed, but the stage was definitely not set for the two men to bond. For all Peregrine’s great charm and (much publicized) “ eccentric hippie lifestyle” , he was in fact deeply old-fashioned in some ways, and as the weekend progressed, despite some interesting trips like a visit to a local arts and crafts house, David never did play the Elephant Fayre. “Rinthy” said David conspiratorially to me, as Perry showed him the Robert Lenkowitz mural on his drawing room wall, and the maze with the bulls head buried at it’s centre, “I discovered the word ‘Lucifer” scrawled in red on a mirror this morning. This place is too weird, even for me!” To be fair this probably had nothing to do with Peregrine, as the mirror was in the rooms of the playwright Heathcote Williams, who at that time was lodging in a wing of the house…

So, as my London bound train glides over Brunel’s aqueduct in 2017, I look back to Port Eliot’s lawn in 1981 and I remember that I took a photograph of us all that weekend. I took it with the camera on a tripod, then whipped round to sit on the grass. There’s David with Coco behind him, me shading my eyes from the sun, and Peregrine with his son Jago. I suppose it was an original “Ussie”, David died a year ago in the week of his birthday, just before releasing his final album, Lazarus, and Peregrine died in August, just before his beloved Port Eliot Festival opened. Jago too had sadly died, a few years ago, much too young. As the train pulls in to Plymouth, the rainbow recedes, and a whole bunch of cheerful yet rowdy football fans board, (deeply unconcerned with anything other than the beautiful game) my moment of reverie has passed. Putting on my headphones, I bed down in my seat and listen to Lazarus, David’s last album, and the title song with the extraordinarily prescient lines “Look up here, I’m in heaven, I’ve got scars that can’t be seen, I’ve got drama can’t be stolen. everybody knows me now”, which, of course, is true. They know the very public David, the multi-talented musician, singer, song writer, actor, alchemist etc. His death caused a huge outpouring of tributes from fans. Lazarus, the play, opened in New York and London, and various pieces of his art collection were sold at Sotheby’s, raising millions, and no doubt the spotlight and tributes will roll in again on the anniversary of his death. His extraordinary legacy will live forever, but on the morning he died, so elegantly and quietly with not even some of his closest friends knowing (how like David) when I heard the news on the radio like everyone else, apart from the shaft of pure sadness that shot through me like a spear at the loss of someone I had personally known, , I thought (rather selfishly on reflection) “no one will ever call me ‘Rinthy’ again”…..

Carinthia West

Carinthia West is a photographer and journalist.

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So, I'm quite intrigued now ...Adam Mars-Jones is a writer of gay literature.. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... nes-review

https://dafjones.photoshelter.com/image ... eD8x63v9q0 LYNN BARBER; KEITH KING; ADAM MARS-JONES, The Omnivore hosts the third Hatchet Job of the Year Award. Sponsored by the Fish Society. The Coach and Horses. Greek st. Soho. London. 11 February 2014.

His father was Welsh judge Sir William Mars-Jones who was involved in a number of high profile trials https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/j ... obituaries

..He prosecuted in the Moors Murders trial in 1965, and that year was appointed to conduct an official inquiry into allegations of misbehaviour at several London police stations. The Mars-Jones Report identified the lack of accountability which contributed to the corruption which engulfed Scotland Yard later. It may also have given him his deep detestation for this kind of corruption, which he demonstrated in 1975 by jailing eight policemen for a total of 77 years for taking bribes from Soho pornographers: they had "turned the Obscene Publications Squad into a gigantic protection racket".

He was appointed a High Court judge in 1969. He may have been selected to preside over the ABC trial because of his reputation for complete mastery of the jury ("they always do exactly what he wants" was the groan in the robing room). The prosecution was the brain-child of M15, which wanted to jail the scientific journalist Duncan Campbell (C), who kept breaching D-notices. Campbell and Time Out reporter Crispin Aubrey (A) were arrested for talking to an ex-soldier John Berry (B) about his service many years before in a GCHQ signals regiment in Cyprus. MI5 prevailed on a weak Labour Attorney-General to authorise a prosecution under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act, in breach of previous undertakings that this charge would never be used against journalists.

The proceedings were a turning-point for official secrecy in Britain. The government was forced to admit to the existence of GCHQ, and then (as the result of a Mars-Jones ruling) to the intercept role of its signals units in Cyprus. Its law officers were obliged to own up to their practice of vetting jurors in security-sensitive cases, and lost a constitutional battle with the media over the right to report the real identity of the Crown's chief witness when the officer was named in Parliament. Such was the controversy stirred by the ABC support campaign, that conviction of the defendants on the Section 1 charge became a matter of political importance, both for the government and the security services.

When the State invokes national security, the independence of the judiciary is the citizen's vital protection. On October 24, 1978, towards the end of the prosecution evidence, Mr Justice Mars-Jones announced he was "extremely unhappy" about this "oppressive prosecution". Section 1 was designed for use against spies: why was it being used against freedom of speech? The prosecutor said the proceedings had been authorised by the Attorney General. "If the Attorney-General can authorise the prosecution, then he can unauthorise it," snapped Mars-Jones. Next morning Sam Silkin did just that, and Section 1 has never again been used against journalists or whistleblowers.

Mars-Jones's conduct of the trial was an important assertion of the judicial role as a check on state power and has often been cited as an example of how judges can be trusted, when press and Parliament fail, to protect fundamental liberties. It assisted the argument for a Bill of Rights which finally succeeded with the incorporation last year of the European Convention...

1969 .. such an interesting year.. Woodstock fiasco, Stonewall raid in NY and the start of the LGBTQ movement.. drawing parallels between New York and London during that time is quite instructive... Stonewall and its Mafia connections probably needs its own post but I'll start with London...

The Velvet Mafia: the gay men who helped shape music in the 60s https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... in-the-60s

In a revealing new book, the often overlooked input of queer men who helped advise, manage and steer artists in the swinging 60s is examined..

Alun Owen, Lionel Bart and Brian Epstein at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in January 1964.

The story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the solos or thrashed the drums. In the UK at the time, that most often meant straight white men, as it did in the US. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the ones who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized margin, gay men...

That interwoven community included Brian Epstein (who brought the world the Beatles), Kit Lambert (who co-managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Gees), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pitt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smith (who formed the visionary label Charisma for bands like Genesis). In fact, it was a gay man, Larry Parnes, who svengali-d Britain’s very first rockers, from Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wilde.

Likewise, in the US, you had key LGBTQ music power players like Clive Davis at Columbia Records, Seymour Stein at Sire, David Geffen at Asylum, and Danny Fields, who discovered the proto-punk stars Iggy Pop and MC5 for Elektra.

A new book titled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swinging Sixties aims to tell the British side of this story by focusing on several key players in the scene, including a few of the aforementioned names along with the innovative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood. Author Darryl W Bullock said he tackled the subject because he believes “it’s incredibly important for people to understand that LGBTQ people were not just a part of what created the rock culture we enjoy today, they were the driving force behind it. They were the people who pushed things forward,” he said, “the ones looking for the ‘next big thing’ to kickstart a cultural revolution.”..

...The man at the start of it all, Larry Parnes, had a complicated relationship with the stars he discovered. On the one hand, he devoted great care to their creative and commercial nurturing. But he also exploited them financially and, at times, sexually. Parnes would often try to sleep with his stars even if they were underage. “Of course, guys like Larry [Parnes] and Brian [Epstein] and Robert Stigwood were trying it on,” Bullock said. “There absolutely was a dodgy aspect to them.”..

..More, the best of the managers gave the young musicians a confidence and understanding they never would have had otherwise. Some even played crucial creative roles, like Kit Lambert who used his knowledge of the broader world of art and music to push Pete Townshend to create his historic rock opera Tommy...

Alun Owen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Owen

Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh screenwriter and actor predominantly active in television. However, he is best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night (1964), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Queer, There, and Everywhere By Michael Koresky https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... everywhere

Sometimes referred to as “the Fifth Beatle,” Brian Epstein was the band’s manager and the one who discovered them, gave them their look and style, and introduced them to the world; gay and Jewish—thus doubly othered in swinging sixties London—and content to be a behind-the-curtain figure, Epstein is an unassuming sort to be called, by Warren Ellis, “one of the great unsung architects of twentieth-century culture.” Furthering the mystique around Epstein for intrigued queer historians is the fact that Epstein’s gayness was well known by the Fab Four and was allegedly treated by them in a matter-of-fact manner, despite the rampantly homophobic culture of a time in UK history when consensual sexual acts between men were still outlawed...

The closest bond is said to have existed between Epstein and John Lennon, whose generally open attitudes toward sexuality have been well recorded and published. The central event between the two men that has persisted even to this day as a source of fascination, and which has fueled decades of speculation, occurred in late April and early May in 1963, when the two men vacationed alone together for twelve days in Barcelona, at the same time that Paul, George, and Ringo took a trip to Santa Cruz; Lennon’s first child, Julian, with his first wife, Cynthia, had been born just two weeks prior. ..Wondering what, if anything, went on between Epstein and Lennon is more than the pastime of slash fan-fiction writers. By way of semi-denial, Lennon said to Jan Wenner in Rolling Stone in 1971, “I just went on holiday. I watched Brian picking up the boys. I like playing a bit faggy, all that. It was enjoyable, but there were big rumors in Liverpool, it was terrible.” Thanks to interviews and oral histories over the years—and one unsubstantiated, quite detailed report from Lennon’s childhood friend Pete Shotton in his book In My Life relating that Lennon told him sexual activity did indeed take place—thirst for the truth around the Barcelona trip has never been quenched. ..

...Locating queer appeal in the mythology of the Beatles is not as idiosyncratic a choice as some may think. The anarchic attitude and easy intimacy of the band, especially as depicted in A Hard Day’s Night, has long offered a twinge of promise for the queer viewer. In that film, the four handsome mop-tops are themselves the queering agents, running roughshod over proper society (“Give us a kiss,” John says at one point to a straight in a suit). Meanwhile, followers of gay British culture might find Richard Lester’s casting of Wilfrid Brambell, who plays Paul’s omnipresent, disconcertingly libidinous “grandfather,” of interest—the gay Brambell had been arrested in a public restroom in 1962 for “indecent acts.” (Queer cinephiles may also know that Brambell would later play Terence Davies’s elderly surrogate in his wrenching 1983 short Death and Transfiguration.) In fact, The Hours and Times, which uses the bathroom as a place of sexual initiation, seems to consciously evoke the playful homoeroticism of A Hard Day’s Night, in which a presumably naked John plays with submarine toys in the bubble bath, while George shaves in the mirror mere feet away.

Wilfrid Brambell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Brambell

Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney...

Brambell was born in Dublin, the youngest of three sons born to Henry Lytton Brambell (1870–1937), a cashier at the Guinness Brewery, and his wife, Edith Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer. ..

Steptoe latest BBC personality to be accused of abusing children http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/world/s ... g-children

Deceased actor Wilfred Bramble who played Albert Steptoe in popular BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son has been accused of abusing two boys in the 1970's.

The allegation was made by a man who was 12 or 13 at the time and a resident at Haut de la Garenne children's home, an institution at the centre of a long running investigation into extensive child abuse over the course of many years.

The incident involving the gay actor Wilfred Bramble is said to have happened at a theatre in Jersey in the Channel Islands where he is said to have molested two boys.

“Two of the people who contacted me said that they were abused by Wilfred Brambell." ex Jersey health minister Stuart Syvret told The Daily Telegraph.

“I was told that he visited the back rooms of the Jersey Opera House and abuse would happen there. I am convinced they were telling the truth. One of the men was a resident at Haut de la Garenne at the time and was taken to the theatre where he was abused.”

Syvret also divulged to the Daily Mail "The two boys came to me about Brambell because they did not trust the police. They came to me and told me they were sexually abused by him."

Following the recent revelations from victims of BBC star Jimmy Savile, who has also been accused of incidents of abuse in Jersey, more victims have stepped forward with allegations.

Bramble, who was often refered to as a 'dirty old man' in one of the most memorable Steptoe comedy catchphrases, rose to fame as the star of Steptoe and Son during the 60's and 70's and also starred alongside The Beatles in the film A Hard Day’s Night, playing the role of Paul McCartney's granddad.

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So, just to make a point about those locations mentioned above where 3 Hares are found: Dartmoor in the UK is synonymous with the Moors murders, a story of pedophilia and murder. Some people speculate that the narrative given to the general public hides a deeper story.. Jimmy Savile's name appears http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2013/06/j ... eople.html ......

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Brady and Hindley buried the bodies of the children on Saddleworth Moor, which is near Manchester in the Peak District, not Dartmoor.

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SeltaeB – The Conspiracy? https://thenumbernineblog.wordpress.com ... onspiracy/

The merchandising scandal of the Beatlemania era known as SeltaeB (Beatles backwards) was kept fairly hush hush certainly during this time as well as many years after. ..

Seltaeb was a company set up in 1963 to look after the merchandising interests of the Beatles and Brian Epstein. Nicky Byrne was contracted by David Jacobs (Epstein’s lawyer) to head the company on behalf of NEMS Enterprises, Brian Epstein’s management company. Byrne took the contract at a 90% commission rate, leaving only 10% for the Beatles and NEMS combined. Not realizing the potential goldmine for Beatles-related products at the time, Epstein accepted the 10% rate, which has been estimated at a $100,000,000 dollar loss for NEMS and the Beatles.

Beatles related products began to pour out all over the world in 1964 after Beatlemania was in high gear, launching them up to the highest heights of stardom and beyond. Everything from Beatles chewing gum, to Beatles mop top wigs, to Beatles fudge-sickles, candy, trading cards, jewelry and more began to flood into the aisle ways of every store, and into the homes of every pre-teen and teenager in America and the world. All paying licensing fees to Seltaeb and therefore, Nicky Byrne- who was making an absolute fortune off of the Beatles image...

.. began to realize that it was this scandal that ultimately made the Beatles such a worldwide phenomenon. How is that? Well obviously it wasn’t the sole reason for the Beatles success, but it was certainly a slice of the entire apple pi(e). Byrne and Seltaeb licensed out the rights to use the Beatles likeness for pennies on the dollar, making hundreds of outside interests companies salivate over the sale potential of any product marketed with the Beatles likeness adorning it. The Beatles image was marketed worldwide, on thousands of products. People all over the world who may have never heard a Beatles record, saw the Beatles and their mop-top haircuts and smiling faces on their beauty products, their food, their household items, their clothing, their toys etc. etc. It was really a genius marketing ploy, one that worked very very well for the sensationalized promotion of the Beatles image...

No doubt Byrne was making a HUGE chunk of Beatles-bucks, and this soon concerned Brian Epstein who was making only 10% of the profit of the entire endeavor. The rate was re-negotiated in 1964 to 49%, however this set Epstein and Byrne on a tormenting 3 year ongoing court battle for negotiations for past monies due. Companies that were once salivating for the Beatles dirt-cheap licensing rights, lost interest waiting for the legalities to finalize during this time. The Beatles sensation had died down quite a bit and by 1966, the Beatles official licensed products had all but disappeared from the public realm. Before the conclusion of the legalities, Epstein died of what was ruled as an accidental overdose in August 1967. The following year, Epstein’s lawyer David Jacobs was found hanged in his garage in December 1968, and Nicky Byrne retired in the Bahamas. Well…. hmmm...

..We may never truly know if Epstein’s death was accidental as ruled. I certainly hope that is the case, and not for a more sinister reason. However, we do know that Epstein’s close associate, friend and lawyer David Jacobs has indeed had much controversy surrounding his claimed suicide. There have been reports of Jacobs’ association with the notorious Kray twins, and his refusal to represent them when they were tried for murder. Several attempts by Jacobs’ hiring personal security, asking for police escorts, and confessions to close friends that he was ‘in danger’ or that ‘they were all after him’. There is circumstantial evidence that Jacobs’ was operating under the motivation of blackmail as well. Jacobs’ list of clientele include The Rolling Stones, Larry Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Judy Garland, Diana Dors, Brian Epstein – and even, indirectly, the Beatles, all of which have association in one form or another with the Beatles and/or their entourage. And with the exception of Judy Garland and Zsa Zsa Gabore were all featured on the Sgt. pepper album cover… another Beatles coincidence??..

Epstein on the other hand, is much more secretive and hush hush. Not much has been said about Brian Epstein’s background or daily life besides his deals and interactions with the Beatles and NEMS enterprises. However it has been speculated that he had found himself in some pretty hot water around the time of his death. Not just with the Seltaeb scandal and his fear of the Beatles finding out what a horrible deal he had agreed to, but allegedly he had racked up some significant gambling debts and was part of an underground circle of well-to-do persons who lurked in the shadows of taboo and illegal activities in the early 60s. Epstein was a homosexual at a time in Britain when such a lifestyle was illegal, and heavily frowned upon by society. He was sure to keep most of his private encounters away from the prying eyes of the public. .. There are several claims of compromising pictures taken of Epstein during Beatles world tours which were used as blackmail against the famed Beatles manager. There are also rumors that Epstein may have used the illegal connections of the Kray twins, soliciting call boys from the notorious mafia-styled gangsters who ran an organized pedophilia ring out of a house in a Suffolk village (Tattington) owned by Ronnie Kray. The Kray twins had major influence upon the casinos that the likes of David Jacobs and Brian Epstein frequented and possibly owed a significant amount of gambling debt to. Combine that with the underground dealings of call-boys supplied by the Kray twins, bad financial decisions on behalf of the Beatles interests, drug addiction, and possible threats against his life, and you have a very serious dark cloud of speculation and concern storming the manager of the band who made it to the toppermost of the poppermost in a frenzy....

....Speaking of 50+ years of all-things Beatles- this past June marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album. The occasion was celebrated by repackaging and re-releasing the Sgt. pepper album in new “born again” fashion. Throughout mid-2017 billboards and advertisements all across Liverpool began to appear featuring Brian Epstein. ‘With A Little Help From My Friends‘ is the name of this artwork by award winning artist Jeremy Deller, which features the tagline:

“Brian Epstein died for you”

When asked about the inspiration for his art, Deller explained;

“The phrase, ‘Brian Epstein Died for You’, though short, carries with it ideas of belief and self-sacrifice, two strong aspects of Christianity and indeed most mainstream religions. It could be argued that popular music itself is a belief system, and the phrase ‘Brian Epstein Died for You’, has great meaning to its devotees, as he was such a key figure in its development.” . Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-o ... l-13085322

Well now, that sounds a lot like many of the concepts discussed on the numbernine in one little neat and tidy quote! Imagine that. He even used a ‘Brian Epstein Died For You’ piece using the Lord Kitchener motif discussed in a previous numbernine article, I Was Lord Kitchener! That’s pretty fab if you ask me. It begs the question (at least for me) did Epstein die for me/us/the fans? Or for the Beatles well-being? If for the Beatles- did it work?

By perusing over some of Jeremy Deller’s other artworks, I would have to assume (you know what they say about assuming…) that Deller is very much ‘in the game’. Here you will find a link to some of his work if interested, do be sure to check it out.

Re Kray twins:

sir clement Freud shared an office with pedo MP cyril smith and was friends with Rolf Harris https://searchvoat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3217541

Clement Freud is the brother Lucian Freud, a very close friend of the Kray twins, who ran child abuse rings for top people.

JIMMY SAVILE, THE KRAY TWINS, IAN BRADY, HAMPSTEAD, CLIFF RICHARD ... http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2015/11/ji ... y.html?m=1

Occult Yorkshire: Fabian Family Secrets and Cultural Engineering in the UK (Intro) https://auticulture.wordpress.com/2015/ ... yorkshire/

Extract:

"Jimmy Savile ... and the Krays worked and played together in the sixties, and were likely involved with the sex trafficking of children to members of the British elite, including via care homes where children were allegedly tortured, even killed.

"Myra Hindley and Ian Brady frequented the same dance halls where Savile DJ-ed, in Manchester in the 1960s, and Savile talked about being friends with Ian Brady.

"Brady (who grew up in Glasgow before moving to Manchester), bragged about his associations with the Glasgow mafia and the Kray twins.

"Glasgow was also where the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was founded, in 1975."

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..'Glasgow godfather' Thompson reportedly was selling guns to the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force). He worked for MI5.

"They then told him he could pretty much start the drugs trade in Glasgow." Arthur Thompson was an associate of the Kray twins. The Kray twins reportedly ran a pedophile ring for top people.

A Kray Twin and a boy who died young.

Brady and Hindley's child killings took place in the North of England, near Manchester. But, Ian Brady "implies he may have ... buried bodies at the Campsie Fells near Glasgow. In his letters, Ian Brady "drops in the names of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who terrorised London’s east end in the 1950s and 60s."

In the 1970s, Lord Longford, friend of Hindley, compiled a self-funded report into pornography. Lord Longford invited Sir Jimmy Savile, the Bishop of Leicester and Cliff Richard to join him on a wide-ranging tour of sex industry establishments, including strip clubs in Copenhagen.

LUCIAN FREUD, BOYS, KRAY TWINS, TOP PEOPLE http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2011/07/l ... eople.html

..Lucian Freud ran up half a million pounds in gambling debts with the gangster Kray twins, who reportedly ran a child abuse ring for top people...

Judy Garland and the UK's Kray Twins
(Another Nickel In The Machine - 2). Judy Garland was said to be a victim of brain washing by the spooks.

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Brady and Hindley buried the bodies of the children on Saddleworth Moor, which is near Manchester in the Peak District, not Dartmoor.

Thanks. I'll have to correct that.

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<...That interwoven community included Brian Epstein (who brought the world the Beatles), Kit Lambert (who co-managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Gees), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pitt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smith (who formed the visionary label Charisma for bands like Genesis). In fact, it was a gay man, Larry Parnes, who svengali-d Britain’s very first rockers, from Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wilde....>

Kit Lambert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Lambert

Christopher Sebastian "Kit" Lambert (11 May 1935 – 7 April 1981) was a British record producer, record label owner, and the manager of The Who...

..Kit Lambert was the son of composer Constant Lambert and part-time actress Florence Kaye. He was the grandson of George Washington Lambert, a sculptor and painter who was an official war artist for the Australian government at Gallipoli during World War I. His godfather was his father's friend and fellow composer, William Walton.[1] His godmother was Margot Fonteyn, the prima ballerina who danced for Constant's company, the Royal Ballet, and with whom Constant had an affair causing him to leave Lambert's mother.[2] Home life was difficult for Lambert who was sent to live with his grandmother at a young age. When he was 16, his father died at the age of 45...

After studying history at Trinity College, Oxford, Lambert briefly served as an officer in the British Army; he was stationed in Hong Kong. After his service, in May 1961, he joined an expedition with two Oxford friends, Richard Mason and John Hemming, in an attempt to discover the source of the Iriri River in the Amazon. Lambert hoped to film the expedition as a documentary. On 3 September, Mason was killed by an uncontacted Amazon tribe known as the Panará while he was alone hunting for food. Lambert was initially arrested on suspicion of murdering his friend but, after a concerted campaign in Britain by the Daily Express newspaper, which had financed the expedition, he was released. After returning to the United Kingdom, Lambert became an assistant director (AD) on the films The Guns of Navarone, From Russia with Love, and The L-Shaped Room which is where he met fellow AD, Chris Stamp brother of actor Terence Stamp...

...At the peak of his success Lambert owned a flat in Knightsbridge, London, andPalazzo Dario on the Grand Canal in Venice, where he was known as Baron Lambert. Lambert claimed that he was conceived in Venice and hence was connected to the city. His neighbour was the heiress and renowned Modern Art collector, Peggy Guggenheim, with whom Lambert was rumoured to be romantically linked. However, back in the UK his excessive drug use brought him to the attention of the British police and he was arrested and charged with possession of heroin. As a defence, and one rarely used, a lawyer convinced Lambert to become a Ward of the Court of Protection whereby he would avoid drug charges and a potential prison sentence while an Official Solicitor would take charge of his affairs. As a ward Kit would be provided with a small weekly stipend out of his own money to live on amounting to approximately £150/week. This, even though royalties from the albums that Lambert produced for the Who and Hendrix were steadily increasing each year...

.. Lambert died of a cerebral hemorrhage after falling down a flight of stairs. On the night of his death, he was seen drinking heavily at a popular Kensington homosexual watering hole, El Sombrero, where, according to many, including Townshend, he was beaten up by a drug dealer over an unpaid debt, which contributed to his fall and death. In his autobiography Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Guy, record producer Tony Visconti stated: "He [Lambert] was already in advanced stages of whatever. He died when a coke dealer pushed him downstairs.

El Sombrero was a notorious gay bar/disco that attracted all the big names of the day...

Club Louise and Sombrero's - London 1976/77 http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspo ... 97677.html

.. Sombrero's was on Ken­sington High Street and a very GAY Disco, owned by a pair of Spanish queens, it had a raised dance floor of multicoloured Perspex that resembled a boxing ring and had waiter service. A lot of Oriental and Middle Eastern queens went there, it was very faggy indeed, gold chains and sprayed hair, little leather clutch bags, rich older queens and their younger pickings. It was home in the early 1970s to the glam rock scene, Mr and Mrs Bowie.
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Anonymous said...
I used to frequent the Sombrero club in the early 1970's. The clubs name was actually 'Yours or Mine'. It was truly was the best gay club in London at that time. The underlit dance floor was very unusual and it added to the fun. The description of the club by the author does not fit my memory - but he is talking about 1976 - aftr my time. I think the manager Amedeo was still there and also Jaunito the waiter both were Italian. I have just started a Tribute to the Sombrero group on Facebook. If anyone has any memories please post them on the site...

..I used to work there, so I was very happy to find this blog,was always wondering what happen to all my friends,spoke to Mr Harry Laubscher a few month ago,he's well and lives in Switzerland,last thing I've heard that Amado poured Gasoline over his friend and set him on fire,does anybody ever run into Monica Shell or Ashley Lloyd Johnson? I was actually working at the restaurant but helps at the club from the very beginning, Harry didn't want to opened it because of his reputation but then we kinda talk to him into it and he sure made some money with it...

So, there is some incorrect information in that blog.. El Sombrero was owned by Harry Laubscher who came from a Swiss banking family : http://swissgay.info/wp-content/uploads ... rry-11.pdf

Some points from that article:
Laubscher talks about his time as a young man with the Swiss army. Then he first went into banking and was initially sent to London by Schweizerischer Bankverein [now UBS]. In 1955 he lived in Kensington. He soon opened up a couple of cafes serving coffee and tea. One was Sombrero. At some point a fire destroyed his cafe, he thinks it may have been arson but he soon reopened. In 1962 he opened a club in the basement of Sombrero [called Yours or Mine]. His club was one of THE places to go to in London [it was here that David Bowie met Freddi Burretti who would help to transform his career with the Ziggy Stardust costumes http://www.5years.com/keypeoplefb.htm] ... Judy Garland was a friend and visited his club 3 days before her death...Laubscher returned to Switzerland when his friend was killed.

What that article does not mention is Laubscher's connection to the mob.. An article from the Guardian, 1957 https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipp ... tQfw3ssOj8

Accused of inciting Bernard Silver to fabricate evidence against Samuel Edward Salaman of Harrington Road London, with intent to mislead a judicial tribunal, Harry Laubscher, aged 28,...

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14587006/bernie-silver/

The Judge told the jury: "This is one of the most extraordinary stories I have ever heard."

Bernie Silver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Silver

Bernard Silver[1] (December 1922 – 2002) was an English criminal, who was a leading crime boss in the London underworld of the 1950s to 1970s. Active in prostitution, pornography and racketeering, Silver was described as "a working-class East Ender with a taste for fine restaurants and flashy clothes."..

Silver was born in Hackney, London,[3] into a Jewish family to Emily V (née Saunders) and Louis Silver,[4] and had three younger brothers: Raymond, Dennis and Ronald.[5][better source needed]

Silver's rise to prominence began in the mid 1950s with the absorption of the remnants of the Messina Brothers prostitution operation into what came to be known as "The Syndicate",[6] a criminal organisation headed principally by Silver and former Maltese traffic policeman "Big Frank" Mifsud who worked in olive oil importation when he first came to London.[7][8][9] In 1956, Silver was arrested and charged for living off immoral earnings but was inexplicably let off by the judge who decided there was no case to answer. Starting off with one stripclub in Bower Street, by the late 1960s the duo controlled 19 of the 24 stripclubs in Soho.[4]

During the heyday of the Syndicate (1967–1972), most of the Metropolitan Police Obscene Publications Squad were in its pay, including the squad's head, Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody.[10]

Silver's influence began to wane as the 1970s wore on, a decline prompted by major investigations into police corruption that by the end of 1972 had led to the resignation of eighty detectives.[11] The discovery of a detailed ledger of the Syndicate's police payoffs during a raid on the home of Silver's associate Jimmy Humphreys led to the dismissal or forced retirement of hundreds of Metropolitan Police officers;[12] corruption trials in 1976–77 resulted in thirteen detectives—including two ex-Commanders, the highest-ranking British police officers ever to be convicted of corruption—being sentenced to a total of 90 years in prison.[10]

In 1973, Silver was again arrested and charged for living off immoral earnings for renting out a room above one of their stripclubs to dancers who also worked as prostitutes. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison, with Mifsud going on the run before getting caught in Switzerland and deported back to England. However, Mifsud appealed and got his sentenced quashed and he then returned to his native Malta.[4]

Silver was convicted on 8 July 1975 of the 25 June 1956 murder of Tommy "Scarface" Smithson.[1][13] He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and to ten years imprisonment for conspiracy to murder, but later cleared on appeal.[14] Smithson was a former boxer and navy merchant stoker who had been attempting to control prostitution in Soho.[15]

The film character Lew Vogel in the film The Bank Job is based on Bernie Silver..

https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/praxis/flipside.htm

The BFI Flipside series consists of reissues on disc (DVD and Blu-Ray) of forgotten Brit films, and each and every one is proving crucial viewing for anyone with even the slightest interest in the history of British cinema. Many of the flicks are simultaneously incredible documents of the emergence of swinging London and the subsequent come-downs from that high.

The oldest movie in the latest round of Flipside releases is That Kind Of Girl (dir. Gerry O'Hara, 1963). It's the tale of a swinging Austrian au pair called Eva (Margaret Rose Keil), who catches the clap from seedy middle-age advertising executive Elliot Collier (Peter Burton) and passes it on to two younger men. Obviously the scenes of sex kitten Eva getting her dose of syphilis and spreading it around prove more fun than later episodes covering her cure at the Special Clinic. Nonetheless, fast-paced editing keeps the film moving and not even the educational sections will bore you. Indeed, the sight of a doctor quoting 1963 UK syphilis infection rates to a Special Clinic nurse as if she didn't already know them might make you laugh: "14,000 new cases a year - and most of them young people."

Eva's first boyfriend is working class autodidact Max (Frank Jarvis) who picks her up at the El Sombrero coffee shop. By the 1970s (and probably also in the 1960s) this was a concession beneath The Sombrero Restaurant in High Street Kensington. Right at the start of That Kind Of Girl, we see Eva getting off a 31 bus and walking along a stretch of High Street Kensington before going into the entrance of The Sombrero. This sequence was shot in the early Sixties at a time when the 31 bus ran between Notting Hill and Chelsea, the route was changed on 29 May 1999. In That Kind Of Girl, we cut from Eva going into The Sombrero to her appearance in the El Sombrero coffee shop. I assume this would have entailed going down a flight of stairs but that isn't shown. When my swinging mother Julia Callan-Thompson, who was part of the beatnik scene that Max also represents, arrived in London at the start of the 1960s, El Sombrero was one of the places she hung out. Barry Miles provides a description of the place from a later era in his new book London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 (Grove Atlantic, pages 319-320):

"El Sombrero, in the basement below the Sombrero restaurant, distinguished by its Mexican hat neon sign, at 142 Kensington High Street, was a popular hangout in the late seventies. For a time Derek Jarman, Ossie Clarke, Angie and David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Bianca, Long John Baldry and Dusty Springfield could be found there every week, and even Francis Bacon sometimes peeped in. It was the first disco in London to have coloured underfloor neon lighting beneath its flashing, star-shaped, glass dance floor. There was a raised section overlooking the dance floor which could be reserved by ordering champagne. To comply with licensing laws, everyone was given a paper plate with a thin slice of pork pie and a smear of coleslaw. That way you could dance until 2 a.m. for a couple of shillings. The patron was Amadeo, known to all as Armadillo, who sat at the bottom of the steep staircase, counting the pound notes. The waiters Jose and Manuel balanced glasses on trays held high above their heads as they weaved their perilous way through the crowds. It was mostly a gay club and later changed its name to Yours or Mine?"

Papers of my mother's that survived her death in 1979 indicate that in the late Fifties and early Sixties El Sombrero was run by Harry Laubscher. The venue must have been revamped between then and the late seventies because the interior in That Kind Of Girl looks quite different to 1970s descriptions of it as a gay disco. While I've come across other references to The Sombrero and El Sombrero in this latter period (for example in Bertie Marshall’s biography Berlin Bromley), That Kind Of Girl provides the first reference I've found to its earlier beatnik incarnation from a source other than my mother's papers.

Coincidentally, 142 Kensington High Street is now a Santander bank branch ... *cough*..

JULIA CALLAN-THOMSON: STEWART HOME'S HIPPIE MAMMA https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/rhhm.htm

Julia's friends allegedly included the infamous such as Alexander Trocchi, Michael X, Bob Guccione, Timothy Leary, Colin MacInnes, R. D. Laing, Eric Clapton and William Burroughs, to the fleetingly known including Michael Hollingshead, Roger Taylor, Simon Vinkenoog, Feliks Topolski, Bill Hopkins, David Solomon, Steve Abrams, Brian Barritt, Charlie Radcliffe, Graham Plinston, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, Tambimuttu and Terry Taylor, down to those relative 'unknowns' who formed an important part of the Notting Hill scene of the sixties and seventies such as Mal 'Grainger' Drake, Trina Simmonds, Brenda Grevelle, Detta Whybrow, Bunty Duhrsson and Bruno de Galzain.

That Kind of Girl 1963 Trailer HD

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The Kray Twins and The London Underworld https://jackosborneblogs.wordpress.com/ ... nderworld/

Ronnie and Reggie Kray were twins from Bethnal Green of London’s East End. Both of the twins as teenagers were keen boxers both were very good at amateur level. The boys boxing days was inspired by their grandfather Jimmy “Cannonball” Lee. The twins fought at the Royal Albert Hall with their older brother Charlie Kray on the same card as them on 11th of December 1951. The twins didn’t become professional boxers but turned to becoming night club owners in the late 1950s as they purchased a run down snooker club in Mile End where they started several protection rackets. Ronnie was sentenced to 18 months in prison for running a protection racket and related threats . Peter Rachman, head of a landlord operation, gave Reggie a nightclub called Esmeralda’s Barn on the Knightsbridge end of Wilton Place... Famous faces such as Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra entered their club. MPs and Lords would also visit the club. They gained celebrity status which caught attention of Detective Superintendent Leonard “Nipper” Read who was the head of bringing the Krays into justice and the South London gang called the Richardson’s ..

BERNIE SILVER

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<..Accused of inciting Bernard Silver to fabricate evidence against Samuel Edward Salaman of Harrington Road London, with intent to mislead a judicial tribunal, Harry Laubscher, aged 28,.....>

I couldn't find anymore information on Samuel Salaman but I did find another Salaman in the Kit Lambert story...

https://wikiita.com/kit_lambert

In 2018, his original inscription on the family tombstone - "Christopher Sebastian 'Kit' Lambert - Son of Constant 1935-1981 Creative Musician" - was virtually illegible. Nick Salaman, a friend since they were in college, wrote in Friends of Brompton Cemetery magazine "He was more than a creative musician. And who was this Christopher Sebastian Lambert? Did anyone know or care about his full name? My mind is that. to put on a new gravestone that explained exactly who Kit was and what he was famous for. "The new plaque was paid for by Salaman and Kit's only surviving relative, his half-sister Annie, and unveiled in a ceremony on June 12, 2018. at midday. The new stone, added to the bottom instead of the original one, is engraved ...

...In 2014, an American documentary film about Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp was made titled Lambert & Stamp . It was produced and directed by James D. Cooper. It had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014."

[Chris Stamp is the brother of Terrence Stamp but I'll get to that later.]

Nicholas Salaman is a writer who attended Trinity College, Oxford with Lambert.

The actor Edward Fox did his national service with Nick Salaman https://www.facebook.com/NicholasSalama ... 905007251/

Company information on Nicholas Salaman https://find-and-update.company-informa ... pointments

Total number of appointments 3

SALAMANIMAL LTD (04325468) https://find-and-update.company-informa ... y/04325468

STERIBOTTLE GLOBAL LIMITED (07708715) https://find-and-update.company-informa ... 5/officers

VENTURE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS LTD. (03576106) https://find-and-update.company-informa ... y/03576106

Lady Susanne Olivier and husband Graeme Hossie were both directors of Steribottle and Venture Development https://www.shutterstock.com/de/editori ... 0-1205653g

Lady Susanne Olivier Hossie The Caudwell Children Butterfly Ball held at the Battersea Evolution https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-lady- ... 45665.html

Resume for Graeme Hossie .. he started off as a consultant for Bain and Company .. *cough*... https://archive.md/B2RH7
Then he moved to the Piper Trust

Specialty innovation and retail development consultancy and venture investor. Businesses developed include Pitcher&Piano, Sofaworkshop, others.... Worked with board level at some of UK's leading retail groups..

Interview with Salaman https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.com ... s-salaman/

I have four daughters. I am married to Lyndsay, and I live near The Worlds End.

Lyndsay Salaman, contact person for the Eaton Square Schools, Fulham Road: https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/pdf/MFE%20PROVI ... 202013.pdf

website for the school.. part of the Dukes Education family https://www.eatonsquareschools.com/
Founder of Dukes Education is AATIF HASSAN https://dukeseducation.com/a-message-from-our-founder/

Here with Prince Charles https://sanctonwood.co.uk/chairman-dine ... am-palace/

Our Chairman, Aatif Hassan, attended a dinner at Buckingham Palace last week where he was able to discuss the Prince’s Trust and other charities with Prince Charles. Following the dinner, Aatif had a meeting with the Prince of Wales’s office in St James’s Palace to build bridges and put in place an exciting Dukes Education plan and project. Watch this space!

Hassan used to be an equity manager at August Equity https://thepienews.com/gallery/educatio ... if-hassan/

The Most Outstanding Strategist in the Over 50s Capital Assembly Market in the World in 2011 https://theglobals.net/core/global-awards-2011/

Looking at them it reminded me of ARK ... that's when I found this document..

Education not for Sale https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/fi ... Report.pdf

...After the 2010 election, education companies became more bullish in response to
the political climate, and the new magazine ‘Education Investor’ grew like the
business it reports. In May 2012, when Michael Gove, giving evidence to the
Leveson Inquiry, was asked if it was his view that the government might eventually
move to allowing for-profit operators into the free schools market, he said 'it's my
belief that we could move to that situation...but...I think we should cross that
bridge when we come to it'. The widespread expectation was that the bridge
would be the 2015 election campaign or the early days of a Conservative
administration to follow.
Indeed, at a conference held in London in February 2014 by ‘Education Investor’,
entitled “Private Equity in Education”, one of the speakers indicated that, in
private, ministers were very open to the idea of profit-making in relation to English
education in general, and private equity involvement specifically.
Speaking in the opening session of the conference, which was entitled “Education
is the hot sector in private equity firms right now. Why? And can it deliver?”, Aatif
Hassan, a partner in the firm August Equity, said: “The current government is
offering a pretty positive environment [to private equity in education]. Gove and
his advisers are very pro private equity, and very pro-private. I’m sure if you got
them under Chatham House rules, or spoke to them privately, they would back the
[private] ownership of state schools, and of the involvement of for-profits in the
state system.

“The political risk [for private equity] is what happens after 2015. But at the
moment, it’s pretty positive.”

Hassan added that the value of a good education was that it was not available to
everyone. He said: “If 100 per cent of the people in the UK had an Oxford
education, the value of it would come down, because there is no value in
something everyone has. Even it’s a great education.
“Do not get me wrong: it would be great for the world to have a great education
for the population. But in terms of doing what education is supposed to be doing
for the client [the student], it would not work.”

Jose Rodriguez, a director of Sovereign Capital, the private equity firm co-founded
by the education minister Lord Nash, said: “We decided over 10 years ago to focus
on education as one of our key sectors.“
And Matthew Robb, a partner at The Parthenon Group, which sponsored the
event and describes itself as having a “vision to the leading strategic advisor to the
global education industry”48, said there were “lots of opportunities” in the early
years sector of English education. He said: “Of every [sector of education] it’s the
closest to a voucher system. Therefore, there are lots of opportunities in
nurseries.”

Pretty outrageous stuff. More here...

Mr Frayne also once worked for Sterling in Europe, a pressure group, alongside
Dominic Cummings, who served as a special adviser to Gove from 2011 to early
2014. Cummings is married to Mary Wakefield, deputy editor of the Spectator,
which runs a well-attended annual conference on school reform and is a supporter
of Gove’s approach. Before working for Gove at the DfE and even prior to the 2010 election, Cummings worked informally as an adviser to Gove and is
reported to have emailed Gove after the election with a request that the New
Schools Network (NSN) be handed ‘cash without delay’.66
One academy organisation, ARK Schools, was co-founded by the hedge fund
financier Arpad Busson; its trustees, as of December 2013, were drawn almost
exclusively from the ranks of fellow financiers. Several individuals with
connections to ARK also hold very powerful positions within national education
quangos. Sir Michael Wilshaw is a former director of education at ARK who left
in 2011 to become Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, or effectively Ofsted’s
chief executive. The chair at Ofsted is Baroness Sally Morgan
He then worked for the
NSN from July to December 2010. When his departure as a special adviser was
revealed in October 2013, Mr Cummings was reported as leaving to run a free
school.

At Ofqual, the school qualifications regulator, the corresponding position of chair
is held by Amanda Spielman. Ms Spielman was one of the founding managers of
ARK Schools and was serving as its research and development director at the time
she was appointed to the Ofqual post in 2011. After her appointment, she was
listed on Ofqual’s website as remaining an ‘education adviser’ to ARK Schools.
, who was an
adviser to ARK, the charity overseeing Ark Schools, for at least five years from
2006. She remained in this position after taking up the position at Ofsted in 2011.
She is a former official adviser to the New Schools Network.
68
Ms Spielman has a business and banking background and is a former trustee of the
New Schools Network.Meanwhile, the Department for Education’s board now has
as its lead non-executive director Paul Marshall, chairman of ARK Schools and
another former adviser to the New Schools Network who is also chairman and
chief executive of Marshall Wace LLP, which the DfE describes as ‘one of Europe’s
leading hedge fund groups’...

...The other individual mentioned by the academy chain source was David Hoare.
He co-founded Talisman, a management consultancy firm, in 1987 having
previously worked for Bain and Company, another management consultancy with
links to Mitt Romney. Bain carried out a spending review for the DfE in 2012-13
proposing 50 per cent cutbacks to the department’s budget over the Parliamentary
term 2010-15. Mr.Hoare’s biography on Talisman’s website lists him as a director
of the Tom Attwood Academy Trust. Official information on any position in
relation to the Department for Education is hard to come across, but an
announcement of Sir Bruce Liddington’s departure as chief executive of the E-Act
academy chain in April 2013 said that Sir Bruce would be ‘working with David
Hoare, an independent consultant, who is providing pro-bono advice to the
Department on developing high quality academy sponsors’....