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... and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 Appendix 6: Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4- non Army origin Betty Sinclair Andrew Barr Edwina Stewart James Graham Brian Graham Hugh Murphy All members of the Communist Party of Ireland Glen Barr Chairman of the co-ordinating committee of the loyalist strike of 1974 Lord Brockway Stan Orme MP Stan Thorne MP Kevin McNamara MP All members of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster (CDU) which monitored civil rights (or their absence) in Northern Ireland. CDU was prominent in pressing for reform in 1968/9 Lord Belstead (John Ganzoni) 1973-74 Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary Northern Ireland; House of Lords spokesman; maintained interest ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 218 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-18.htm
... by help and cash payments raised by two former government ministers and a millionaire friend of Margaret Thatcher. The former Tory ministers are Sir Robert Atkins and Lord Blaker. Their target was the Labour Party's biggest private contributor in the days of Neil Kinnock's leadership. Sir Robert Atkins was once John Major's best friend in the Commons. He was the MP for South Ribble from 1983 to 1996 and a minister at the Department of Trade and Industry and Northern Ireland. His retirement as countryside minister at 49, 'to spend more time with my family', followed legal action from Oyston lawyers. Lord Blaker of Blackpool and Lindfield was a career Foreign Office diplomat in the fifties, a cold ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 199 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-03.htm
... been the GMWU and, now following various other amalgamations and regroupings, the GMB. Since its earliest days the union has been a very solid supporter of the Labour Party. As was the custom at that time, a number of its early General Secretaries pursued their own significant political careers. Will Thorne (General Secretary 1924-1934) was Labour MP for West Ham (South) 1906-1945; Tom Williamson (General Secretary 1946-1962) sat on Liverpool City Council 1929-1935 and was MP for Brigg 1945-1948;and John Cooper (General Secretary 1962-1972) was a member of Manchester City Council in 1936, the London County Council in 1949 and sat as MP for Deptford 1950-1951. None of these ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 173 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-38.htm
... great hope (a European crusade against Bolshevism) was dashed by the Nazi-Soviet Pact (August 1939). The singular Mr Stokes Once the war with Poland was over, though, Ramsay and his friends openly strove to reach a deal with Hitler. Nor were they alone. Griffiths notes the effort put into this by Richard Stokes- Labour MP for Ipswich.(4) The Soviet attack on Finland (November 30th 1939) opened the possibility of converting the war from an anti-Hitler crusade into an anti-Stalin crusade. This was congenial to many. After a solemn (though ineffectual) House of Lords debate on peace terms in December 1939, Ramsay and his supporters had their greatest ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-05.htm
... Hosken of the context and psychology behind the views of the ultra-left might have given some ballast and credibility to views that now look seriously deluded. In May 1977 Livingstone became GLC representative for Hackney North. A few weeks later he was selected as Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hampstead defeating Vincent Cable (currently a Liberal Democrat MP) in a contest for this position. Ted Knight became PPC for Hornsey at the same time. They would both have thought it likely that Labour would win a late 1978 election (assuming Callaghan called one) and both, therefore, would become MPs. In this context Living-stone's move to the Hackney North GLC seat, held by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-11.htm
... . 'Strengthening the Constitution', as Steve Dorril pointed out, sounds like a coded reference to more repression; and the 'Imperial monetary policy' probably hints at the interest of the group in some of the Social Credit ideas floating about in the pre-war years. (4) The letter to The Times was signed by: R.V. Applin MP Lord Bertie of Tame (The Earl of Abingdon) Sir Reginald Blaker MP Sir Patrick Ford MP The Earl of Glasgow Lawrence Kimball MP W. Nunn MP Lord Phillimore W. Templeton MP A.R. Wise MP Lord Mansfield Victor Raikes MP In 1940 de Courcy and some of the IPG members began a monthly newsletter, Review of World Affairs ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-27.htm
... Western European Union 1977; Coordinator of Green Alliance 1978-1980; currently a Green Party peer in the House of Lords. LORD BERKELEY- Wimpey PLC 1965; Eurotunnel 1981; Rail Freight Group 1996. JOHN BLAKE- Long career in journalism; president Mirror Group Newspapers (USA) 1989; Executive Producer Sky TV 1990. HELEN BRINTON- Labour MP for Peterborough since 1997. TOM BURKE- Friends of the Earth 1973; director Green Alliance 1982-1991; policy advisor to David Owen; member of British American Project for a Successor Generation; SDP candidate Brighton (Kemptown) 1983 and Surbiton 1987; Policy Advisor Rio Tinto Zinc 1997. RODNEY CHASE- BP from 1964; currently Deputy Chief ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 89 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-03.htm
... to which Chapter 2 of Part 1 [Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data] applies.' The Tribunal is also the appropriate place to bring proceedings under the Human Rights Act 1998 s7 for claims that a public authority has acted in a manner incompatible with a Convention (ECHR) right. It is, in the words of Charles Clarke MP, 'effectively a one-stop shop for those complaining about the use of investigatory powers'.(5) The Tribunal President is Lord Justice Mummery, (a Court of Appeal judge. Under transitional arrangements L J Mummery also remains President of both the Security Service and Intelligence Services Tribunals) and the Vice President Sir Michael John Burton (a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-23.htm
... . Alas for Crozier, the major media took no notice.(1) On December 10 1994 the Spectator kicked off the Gordievsky season proper with its piece naming the Guardian's Richard Gott as 'the KGB's British writer-in-residence'.(2) On 27 December the Guardian printed a photograph of Mr G being embraced by Ron Brown, the former MP for Leith, and Bill Michie MP. It was a busy day for Mr Michie, for he was also named in The Times in a long letter from three former members of the Brian Crozier network, Tony Kerpel, Julian Lewis and Edward Leigh MP. This trio of mouseketeers told Times readers how, in the 1980s, they ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 77 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 The Rebel Who Lost His Cause: the tragedy of John Beckett MP Francis Beckett London House, 1999, £20 John Newsinger John Beckett has always been an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley's fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett's new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man's son, a left wing journalist (New Statesman education correspondent) and historian, to understand what his father became in the course of the 1930s. Francis Beckett's picture of the Labour ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-17.htm
