[…] Mosley’s biographer, he claimed there was no truth in them. As an MP, 1929-31, Lady Cynthia’s political position appears to have approximated to those of the present Labour left, say Wedgie Benn. Besides have a good line on environmental matters that would endear her to our contemporary Greens, she took an interest in welfare […]
[…] in Dalston Road, Hackney by ‘booking’ it through overnight vigils….the communists (CP variety) were nowhere to be seen, let alone members of the Hackney or Stoke Newington Labour parties…that Common Wealth was no more than a debating society was a slur by the Marxists who never forgave us for our rejection of ‘scientific’ socialism […]
[…] of small items had been stolen from him at the address. In Martin Short’s Inside the Brotherhood (1989) Ken Livingstone is quoted as stating that half the Labour local councillors in some parts of London when he joined the Labour Party were Freemasons. He had no proof of this and later declined to provide […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just an example of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent […]
[…] GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated twentieth century British politics by never having any serious rivals on the right. Contrast the Liberal and Labour parties and at times, […]
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
[…] top of MI5. Curry’s history is actually a tendentious, self-serving and obfuscatory account which glosses over MI5’s inherent right-wing bias (presumably in order to mollify the post-war Labour government). The book’s treatment of a number of awkward facets of the organisation’s pre-1945 history make this abundantly clear. MI5’s First World War offshoot PMS2 is […]
