[…] anything positive and the minutes of the Cabinet meeting at which MI5 presented their evidence are still suppressed. Charles Higham, as always, is certain: Pressed by the Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee, he (Churchill) instantly acted to destroy the entire group that was planning a negotiated peace with Hitler.’ (8) Higham lists the consequences: […]
[…] already taken all this on board. The people who ought to read this – in this country the naive enthusiasts for the ‘American way’ in the Parliamentary Labour Party, in the media (for example the idiotic Jonathan Freedland) and among the junior policy wonks feeding Tony Blair’s illusions – will not do so. There […]
[…] seriously.Incidentally, Count Otto von Hapsburg, the diplomat who the authors claim to be a member of the Priory, also features in the conspiracy theories of the US Labour Party. The belief in sinister and mysterious bodies that are deliberately spreading diseases is a very clear link between the witch mania of the Reformation and […]
[…] been overcome: Preston will send a copy of the entire piece (eight, A4 pages) to anyone who sends a stamped, addressed, A4 envelope to him at Independent Labour Publications (ILP), 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds, LS11 9LW. I strongly recommended this to anyone interested in the Harry Newton story. Re: Class War One of […]
[…] delivery is spook-proof. Does disinformation work? It does with some journalists. Take Andrew Rawnsley and his lavishly praised Servants of the People: the Inside Story of New Labour (London: Penguin, 2001). On pp. 256 and 7 he gives us a thumbnail sketch of the events leading to the NATO attack on Serbia over Kosovo. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] phenomenon can be seen in the two pieces on the Economic League by Arthur McIvor. The version for the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, Spring 1988, is titled ‘Political blacklisting and anti-socialist activity between the wars.’ But for the Journal of Contemporary History Vol 23, 1988, it became ‘A […]
[…] system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a right established by the HRA and ECHR. The Labour peer, Lord Ahmed, also complained that transcripts of his phone conversations were given to ministers. Unusually, in this case the government said that Lord Ahmed was […]
[…] diverse as Rudolf Hess in Britain, the peace plots of 1940, and black magic circles in South Wales (those three all linked together, incidentally); Blunt and Burgess; Labour Party politicians, war-time diplomacy and the sexual habits of Mrs Simpson and a great many others; the rise of Ian Paisley, Kincora and John McKeague etc. […]
