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... employed at Queen was Robin Douglas-Home, nephew of Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Robin Douglas-Home, who counted himself a friend of both Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy, appears to have had access to quite a considerable variety of interesting information. On 31 July 1962 Queen published the first piece of gossip linking John Profumo to Christine Keeler and Eugene Ivanov. It is not known who supplied Queen and/or Robin Douglas-Home with this information, but its appearance was a significant part of the events that led to the collapse of the MacMillan government.1 0 The career and political inclinations of Major Oliver Smedley have already been noted. During the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 27 Nov 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-004.pdf
... book of the despairing nature of life in the landscape of Thatcher's Britain with the emergence of a huge unskilled underclass. [11] Denning wrote this judgement as early as 1946. He had a lengthy record of interventions on matters concerning sexuality, voted against homosexual decriminalisation in the House of Lords and conducted the cover-up inquiry in the Profumo case. [12] In Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (2006) Simon Jenkins comments that one effect of the Thatcher, Major and Blair years has been the running down of local and regional democracy and the enormous growth in the unelected power of the Treasury. [13] The Conservatives had a unit at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-28.htm
... (London: Macmillan 1961) This was an insider s account of the dramatis personae, frank but excessively respectful of the decency of their motives. Margaret George, The Hollow Men, (London: Leslie Frewin, 1965) Was a more detached but damning indictment, and she names the guilty names. But by this time, the Profumo scandal (not coincidentally at Cliveden) and Wilson s Labour election victory in 1963 had displaced concern with raking over the past. Appeasement became just another topic of debate among historians, and the central question of who was actually making foreign policy in Britain was lost sight of. From the 1950s onwards, distraction was provided with the revelations ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-09.htm
... was being challenged by small groups in the trade unions who had no right to exert such power. ' Richard Marsh, Off the Rails, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976) p. 133. Richard Crossman attributed much of the tremendous victory' and great triumph' to George Wigg, and described it as Wigg's biggest success since the Profumo affair. Crossman thought that Wilson and Wigg wanted to use the strike to discomfit the communists, not only in the seamen's union but in other unions as well. ' Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol. 1, (Book Club Associates, London 1976), pp. 544 and 5. Of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-03.htm
... that, We woz robbed'. It was this unarticulated feeling of disappointment that in part later enabled some people even to entertain the notion that Gaitskell had been bumped-off by the KGB to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn't entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of the Profumo affair. Cui bono notions were in the air. Perhaps the Soviets had arranged it for Wilson's political benefit? If so, what did that say about Wilson? Remember that Peter Wright knew Gaitskell slightly, and admired him. Golitsyn's little fantasy found some disturbing echoes even in the more liberal corners of Britain. Among Ayer's other close ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-02.htm
... died-with-no-family-given-full-military- funeral-38340097.html> 88 See Gordon Winter, Inside BOSS (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981) pp. 411-415 89See <https://www.cryptomuseum.com/people/lee_tracey.htm>. On Tracey and the Profumo affair see <https://spartacus-educational.com/spartacus-blogURL15.html>. 90 <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/arthur-laffer-medal-of-freedom.html> 91See, for example, <https:/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 09 Dec 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster78/lob78-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... the communist threat'. The Radcliffe Tribunal had reported in 1962, devoting a whole section to the Civil Service staff associations and trade unions, expressing concern at the number of communists and communist sympathisers holding positions in the unions;(119) and his administration was being afflicted by the espionage scandals of George Blake and Vassell - and the Profumo Affair which Macmillan apparently believed was part of a communist conspiracy the bring him down.(120) Catholic Action?There is a distinct Catholic tinge to Common Cause and IRIS. Hollis and Carter, the company which published the Common Cause Bulletin, was a Catholic publishing house. Catholics among the leading figures in Common Cause included chairs ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-04.htm
... . Brook-Shepherd mounts a systematic destruction of Philip Knightley's version of the Penkovsky/Wynne episode in Knightley's book The Second Oldest Profession (Andre Deutsch 1986 see pp.313-25), which Brook-Shepherd says averages two factual errors per page. ' (p .284) After the legal problems with his book on the Profumo Affair and the disastrous appearance on the LWT programme on the trial of Hollis, Knightley's reputation is at an all time low. West's version of Wynne is to be found in his book The Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988). (See pp.123-131) The book was withdrawn following legal action over West's portrayal of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-02.htm
... fear of the communist threat'. The Radcliffe Tribunal had reported in 1962, devoting a whole section to the Civil Service staff associations and trade unions, expressing concern at the number of communists and communist sympathisers holding positions in the unions;117 and his administration was being afflicted by the espionage scandals of George Blake and Vassell – and the Profumo Affair which Macmillan apparently believed was part of a communist conspiracy the bring him down.118 114 See <tinyurl.com/3ylyxuc2> or <https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2020/05/30/secret- memos-confirm-government-role-in-the-jailing-of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 17 Feb 2021 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
