[…] 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 […]
[…] Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no political interest that the Israeli […]
[…] had enormous prestige. Worse, when the struggle for influence was at its most intense because Foreign Office power was being eroded in the short term by a Labour government mesmerised by corporate muscle demanding, among other things, commercial targets for diplomats, Spedding backed what he perceived to be SIS’s best interests – multinational patrons, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] whether Mills is guilty or not of any criminal offence(s). Apart from his testimony in British and Italian courts, his sole public statements have a familiar New Labour ring: I have done nothing wrong. This is something of a New Labour mantra. David Blunkett used precisely the same formula in his various recent post-resignation […]
[PDF file]: Reformatted and slightly updated late 2023. The Clandestine Caucus Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in the British Labour movement since 1945 Robin Ramsay Introduction Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘communist threat’ in Lobster 24; […]
[…] Midland Bank; and Sir Ian Gilmour. Current FARI Chairman is Sir Frederick Bennet, Director of CAU and Kleinwort Benson and a member of the Bilderberg group. See Labour Research June 1983 – The South African Connection, for Tory links to SA. Also mentioned are the familiar names of G. Stewart Smith, Ian Greig and […]
[…] I am aware of. The most pressing was that had he sent UK troops to Vietnam there would have been massive problems with the left-wing of the Labour Party in and outside parliament. And in those days this mattered. The second reason was suggested by the former SIS officer Anthony Cavendish, who told me […]
