Feedback Re: the apparent post-war interrogation of Heinrich Muller and the purported German intercept of the Churchill-Roosevelt telephone conversation – in Lobster 35 pp. 20/21Chris Othen reports that the alleged intercept is taken from a book by Gregory Douglas, Gestapo Chief (R.J. Bender Publications, 1998). He writes: ‘This is one of those situations where the […]
[…] assessment.’ ‘Political’ is defined in the broadest terms, so entries include not only merely ideological and political groups or parties, like the SWP, or Militant, or the BNP, but single issue pressure groups supporting environmentalism, animal rights, health issues and the like. Quangos, charities, think tanks, professional bodies (like the BMA), trade unions and […]
[…] TW, Box NDF, 72 Radford Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7. Shot by both sides: a response to paranoia and disinformation, by Paul Cox Cox was in the BNP when young, changed his mind and has since been researching the British right for a book. He contacted Gerry Gable at Searchlight who offered to swop […]
[…] is the racist Lady Birdwood who reappears in the sixties and seventies Patriotic Party – see George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London 1965) p 61. The BNP reference is in Report on Fascist Organisations by Christopher J. Cowling in NCCL archives, DCL box 42, folder 10. This emerged in the course of the […]
[…] Cabinet. But the impact of this new state form is disproportionately visited upon different members of an increasingly fragmented working class and wider society. For example, a BNP councillor can get two years for bomb-making in Manchester while Muslims with a few dodgy contacts can get life imprisonment for paint-balling in the Lake District. […]
[…] influence over its direction, but that large part of the electorate who see little meaningful difference between any of them and are looking elsewhere, including at the BNP. Oborne recounts a visit to the traditional Labour heartland of Dagenham and Barking with local MP and unsuccessful 2007 Labour deputy leader candidate Jon Cruddas. ‘It […]
[…] witch hunt of the BBC. Blair’s legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical to the socially excluded white working class, by saying that the class war was over and proclaiming the free market inevitable. Bye Tony, […]
[…] identity means something quite different in Sandy Row or Andersonstown than it does in the academic world of the Lower Malone; and that both al-Qaeda and the BNP represent the politics of cultural identity. Which is why we need to bury the politics of cultural identity for reasons that Jim Larkin, Rosa Luxembourg, Sean […]
[…] a senior Police officer in Middlesborough. Labour has also lost ground in a number of local authorities to the Liberal Democrats. This and the rise of the BNP mentioned in note 8 above seems to indicate that the GMB machine concentrates on the importance of Parliamentary seats to the detriment of local level politics. […]
[…] in the run-up to the 2001 general election, it was claimed that entire streets had applied for postal votes after receiving visits from gangs of men. The BNP (which did so unexpectedly well in nearby Oldham) denied that their supporters were behind the alleged coercion. Meanwhile, Tory Graham Quar, while out door-stepping, was confronted […]
