See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, … Read more
[…] deliberately undermined by security scandals. No one as yet knows whether or not the Soviets manipulated these scandals but as H J van den Bergh, ex-head of BOSS, used to say to Gordon Winter, ‘They’d be stupid if they didn’t’. Exceptionally so. Rothschild the puppet-master? Perhaps the most interesting part of this book is […]
[…] was involved in the break-up of a massive fraud. She had been put onto the activities of Taylor and Ash by Billy Hill, the former London underworld boss, who thought there was the making of another Kray-type gang, whose brutality went against the old-time ideals. She was asked to become involved with Taylor, and […]
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good deal … Read more
[…] the Minister was kept ‘out of the loop’ and not informed of the deal. Mrs Beckett was soon removed and replaced by Mr. Mandelson, Mr Draper’s former boss, who approved the other half of the proposed fix, the PowerGen-East Midlands combine. So what? What is wrong with government swapping merger approval in return for […]
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
Introduction The ‘Gable memo’ reproduced below originally appeared as the subject matter of a long and extremely interesting article, ‘Destabilising the “decent people”‘ by Nick Anning, Duncan Campbell and Bruce Page in the New Statesman on February 15, 1980. This is still worth digging out, particularly for its detailed account of the context in which … Read more
[…] the way he did. Before his death we had been very concerned at the lack of checks on his activities. No one seemed to know who his boss was ….” (Wallace’s italics).(2) Reviewing the same book, a former army officer who served in Northern Ireland, Alexander van Straubenzee,(3) describes Nairac as having been ‘a […]
[…] that particular rumour by writing a favourable article in The Citizen, Feb. 27th 1978: British Tycoon Denies Tie-up With SA Government. See Winter below pp488-491. 9. Inside BOSS – South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) About to go out of print – essential reading. Caused Penguin considerable publishing and legal difficulties. […]
