[…] by a desire to expose corruption, crimes or wrongdoing. In Spycatcher, Peter Wright famously exposed the cabal of MI5 officers who had plotted to destabilise Harold Wilson’s Labour Government. He was motivated by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that […]
[…] platform, in Parliament he could eventually count on the support of some forty Conservative MPs, the Liberals under Archibald Sinclair, and, after Munich, almost all of the Labour Party. Origins of The Focus The Focus was partly a dining club and partly a campaign co-ordinating committee. If not strictly secret, it was private and […]
[…] the Persians could effectively resist the comparatively small number of troops which could be brought in quickly’.(24) The Foreign Secretary and the Defence Minister of the then Labour government both favoured the use of military force to seize the oil installations. The option of military intervention was kept open until September 1951, when the […]
[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]
[…] dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a complete […]
[…] Evans. The other two members were Michael Beloff QC and James Goudie QC. Beloff and Goudie were not only closely connected with the Blairs but also the Labour Party. These relationships were of prime importance because my appeal concerned data which, if it existed, could only have related to the Blairs’ attempt to have […]
[…] since A. J. P. Taylor managed a coherent account of the Austro-Hungarian empire in a single volume. Dorril has a general theme, perhaps two, but he doesn’t labour them: the diminution of Britain as a world power, and the way in which covert political operations attempted to oppose this, while at the same time […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay […]
[…] place where all sides could meet on neutral ground. When he refers to a ‘challenge to democracy’, it is economic failure to which he refers, not organised labour. An eminently fair-minded man he may be, but has he produced an interesting book? Yes he has, both in the story that he is aware that […]
[…] wouldn’t surprise me much, considering how many little remnants of the British Empire are drug traffic air-strips – but had the charge been levelled by a senior Labour Party figure, since the Tories are unwilling to reveal their sources of income, what could they have done but deny it? Challen works for the Labour […]
