[…] 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 […]
[…] Fred appeared in it. My phone only began to ring when the first rumours began to arrive about Peter Wright’s Spycatcher book. While Colin’s stories of anti- Labour psy-ops issuing from the Army and the spooks in Northern Ireland could be ignored (he had been in jail and had been a professional disinformer, after […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ink’ person in the world and turned out to have been written in or around 1974. His claims to have been working with Airey Neave on anti- Labour speeches have been substantiated: the letters between them and press reports of the speeches Neave made with Wallace’s material were shown on Channel 4 News. Despite […]
[…] August 1987 the Kilburn Times reported a vitriolic attack by Western Goals (UK) on Ken Livingstone MP (whose constituency includes Kilburn): ‘Livingstone and his friends in London’s Labour councils want to encourage more homosexuals to come out of the closet and spread their perverted filth. The gay rights policy which he is preparing to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and of trade union collective bargaining rights. Accepting that such developments followed from national emergency, for a time some employers had even backed the calls of the labour movement for the maintenance of wartime industrial arrangements into the period of reconstruction. But as the combination of the Bolshevik revolution and full employment generated unprecedented […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
