Editorially
Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of Commons (12/1/88) will run for years. The Cavendish book is an unprecedented public manifestation of the MI6-MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to have survived the Independent smear, even though Neil Kinnock, we hear, has used that smear as the excuse not to take their allegations on board…….
(Ironically, during the debate on the bill to reform the Official Secrets Act, Roy Hattersley read out passages from Cavendish’s book – the bits of material from Wallace which first appeared in Lobster 11…….)
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