[…] voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest we forget, Amicus had donated £2m to Labour’s 2001 election fund. (3) Meanwhile, […]
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) … Read more
[…] history. Can we also assume that whereas he once regarded its atrocities as ‘bad’, he now regards them as ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
[…] Secretary Rifkind to take his sacking to an industrial tribunal, and had his appeal against dismissal rejected by the chairman of the Intelligence Service Tribunal, Lord Justice Brown. Tomlinson’s mother said (the Sunday Times 21 December 1997) that her son described the Intelligence Service Tribunal as ‘a complete farce, a star chamber where he […]
[…] and in the service of the State, Cuckney is currently chairman of the Thomas Cooke group and of Brook Bond, and also of the engineering group John Brown. He has been a director of the Midland Bank since 1978 and of the Royal Insurance since 1979. His most interesting State appointment is as chairman […]
[…] and who-knows-what-else that were going to ensure the state would continue even if there was no one left to govern. Well, we had Civil Defence (whitewash and brown paper bags), but even its most devout apologists finally accepted that it was all kidology and strictly for the mugs. Now, the amazing thing about these […]
[PDF file]: […] didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief architects of the economic mess we are in. This chapter shows how. Robin Ramsay Chapter 8 […]
[PDF file]: […] MP’s: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell […]
[PDF file]: […] to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what passed between […]
