[…] has come from David Shayler who is at the centre of this book. It is easy to forget what an important source Shayler has been. Publicly, the Labour government totally failed to take Shayler’s information on board and swore allegiance to the sanctity and virtue of our secret servants. (But privately, who knows?) Even […]
[…] junior minister in the Treasury during the Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott saw […]
[…] the area where the state, the intelligence services and political activity overlap. There are little bits of new information or perspectives, for example, on Will Owen, the Labour MP who was ripping-off the Czechs and got done (but acquitted) for espionage; the attempting framing of Peter Hain; agent provocateurs in the labour movement; the […]
[…] between Legg and herself, Pat and I married. We were subsequently divorced in 1985. I had recently been involved in student politics as a member of the Labour Club, and was elected to the sabbatical post of Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield […]
[…] he became a Fellow of All Souls in 1920’ – All Souls being one of the centres, according to Quigley, of the Milner Group. In summary then: Labour MP and TGWU leader, Ernest Bevin, becomes a Commonwealth enthusiast and is rewarded with a tour of the dominions, climaxing with a long boat trip and […]
[…] friendship over 30 years with his protégé Alton – or the way that this Observer editor used his position and his closeness to key people in New Labour to keep his readers in the dark over matters of peace and war and much else under the Blair premiership. Preston practises deception by omission as […]
[…] with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes MP biographies; Parties; pressure groups; campaigns; agencies; Councils page; local election results; archive; UK politics newsgroups; links. LabourNet http://www.labournet.org/ International Labour Solidarity Website ‘promotes computer communications as a medium for building international labour solidarity’. Started Nov 1995 to support the sacked Liverpool dockers fight for reinstatement. International […]
[…] Lipsey helped found the British American Project for the Successor Generation, a US-funded network to revive Atlanticism. He is now Lord Lipsey, a key figure in New Labour with its end of ideology, Third Way ‘pragmatism’. His network of influence is just one of many of continuing significance in the political and intellectual world […]
[…] political biography of the period. Not only was Milner in charge of running the country during the war (controlling food supplies, allocating manpower, economic planning, undermining the labour movement, etc.), but his acolytes surrounded Lloyd George, both in the Secretariat of the War Cabinet and in the PMs private office (the so-called Garden Suburb), […]
[…] something else I came across The CIA in Australia, a five-part transcript of 1986 Australian radio programmes on the CIA’s operation to get rid of the Whitlam Labour government in Australia in the 1970s. (Originally, Watching Brief, Public Radio News Services, Melbourne, Australia, October-November 1986.) This is interesting stuff: the best account I have […]
