[…] Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed for ten […]
[…] and one the much vaunted razor-sharp minds at the Treasury didn’t see. Why was Britain not in Vietnam? In a Sunday Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] there would be some big news. Notes ‘Redacted’ in the parlance of the contemporary government information worker. This was the anonymous call received by George Wigg, the Labour MP, urging him to forget about Vassall the spy and look instead at Profumo. Wigg always claimed it was anonymous but there is good circumstantial evidence […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major knew better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in opposition saying he wanted to see ‘a publicly accountable, […]
[…] Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ of the lefties in the Labour Party) where he has produced ‘anarchist threat’ material. Last year a pamphlet called Written in Flames was published by Hooligan Press from a box-number address, ‘BM […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
