[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] other staples to every Iraqi’.(22) What’s more, until sanctions and all the attendant misery and corruption, it was so prosperous that it was a net importer of labour, had a highly developed infrastructure, fabulous healthcare and superb universities. Which is to say, Iraq was never, ever, anything like Stalin’s Soviet Union. War intelligence, March […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[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; […]
[…] Outraged, the BBC’s Newsnight organised a studio debate. It did not explain that the person supporting the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee was a leading Labour spin-doctor, Matthew Freud, using the pseudonym Oliver Kamm.On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to ‘surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers’ letters and […]
[…] of, in fact, up to and including little hints about possible parapolitical dimensions. Did the US oil companies help the SDP to ensure the demise of a Labour government which might have imposed more conditions on them? Did the US government help fund the Scottish National Party in the 1970s? These questions are not […]
