[…] this point. With the BEF routed in Belgium and the French government starting to sue for peace, the cabinet appeasers made concerted efforts to begin talks with Hitler via the Italian ambassador in London. Leading the rush, and spouting many weasel words, were Lord Halifax and R. A. Butler, both favourite politicians of King […]
I sent the following by e-mail to a number of people: ‘Thus Martin Jacques in the New Statesman: ‘For the next 30 years, neoliberalism – the belief in the market rather then the state, the individual rather than the social – exercised a hegemonic influence over British politics, with the creation of New Labour signalling […]
The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
[…] and consequently remained unpublished.) In the run up to the Gulf conflict, extensive use was made of the media to demonise Saddam Hussein as either a new Hitler, or a madman; or, ideally, a combination of both. (It is interesting to note that before transforming Saddam into a ‘bad guy’, the same media had […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to […]
[…] with the surrounding circumstances.’ Brownshirt Windsors? Our own royal family occasionally flits through the pages of Jonathan Petropoulos’s exhaustive survey of the German aristocracy’s involvement with the Hitler Gang, Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). In particular, Anthony Blunt’s post-war mission to Schloss Friedrichshof […]
[…] COLOGNE ROTTERDAM 1940 ZURICH SECONDED TO MINISTRY OF HQ HOME SECURITY 1941 FO NORTHERN DEPT 1942 CONSUL GEN ZURICH – IN CONTACT WITH MEMBERS OF THE ANTI- HITLER RESISTANCE IN GERMANY 1945 CONSUL GEN LIECHTENSTEIN 1947 RETIRED CAIRNCROSS, JOHN 1942 GCHQ EDITOR DEALING WITH AIR INTELLIGENCE 1944 MI6 GERMAN COUNTER INTELLIGENCE. YUGOSLAV AFFAIRS 1945 […]
[…] 1930s and Roosevelt’s attempts to address it through state intervention in the economy created enormous anxiety in sections of the business community. Famously the establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt […]
[…] of Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a poor substitute for angels and devils.” Like others of his ilk, Johnson […]
[…] band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. See Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin, 2004). UVF members have also been involved in race attacks on Sandy […]
