[…] Leveller (Monochrome) April 1985 Political break-ins Friends of the Earth (Bristol) (Guardian 17 May 1985) Member of Clive Ponting law team (Times 14 March 1985) Leader of Labour group on Brent council (Guardian 19 January 1985) Cecil Woolf, publisher of books by Tam Dalyell among others (Guardian 21 February 1985) Member of Christian CND […]
[…] means anything that damages ‘reputation’: for example, if there is a suggestion that a product is faulty, or if a subsidiary is found to have supported child labour or spoiled the environment. This damages overall business activity and can undermine licence to operate. Resulting action, sometimes including regulatory and legislative action, can cost millions. […]
[…] all that a few, a very few malcontents in MI5, a lot of them right wing, malicious…..were spreading damaging and malicious stories about some members of that Labour Government’. This may very well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] the pension she was due and resist SIS attempts to get her to spy for them in Parliament. She formed an unlikely long-distance alliance with the left-wing Labour MP the late Bob Cryer who, like her, was interested in the corruption of the parliamentary lobbying system. They never met. Just before their first arranged […]
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]
[…] British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the documentary evidence’, in Labour History Review, Vol 57 no. 3, Winter 1992. This is a look at the evidence on the links between the ‘radical right’ groups like British Empire […]
[…] expose Garrison’s investigation as a fraud.”. Did we know this? I didn’t. Survey of personnel and income of Adam Smith Institute, AIMS, CPS, Economic League etc in Labour Research February 1985. Anyone interested in the details of Oleg Bitov’s statement/fairy story concerning British intelligence’s ‘kidnapping’ of him can see some of them in Current […]
This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more
[…] made Shadow Chancellor by the late John Smith, he did not believe it but thought he had to go along with the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ to get Labour into office; but for at least a decade he appears to me to have been a true believer. And you can see the appeal of this […]
