[…] The Price of truth: the story of Reuters’ millions by John Lawrenson and Lionel Barber which will no doubt skim over Reuters’ connections to British intelligence. Former Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, although he says he’s for Freedom of Information, will likewise be closemouthed in Northern Ireland: a personal perspective (Methuen) Out soon from […]
[…] parapsychologist Edward Naumov, mentioned above, who was the key Soviet contact for the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, was sentenced to two years hard labour for a semi-related petty offence and remanded to a psychiatric ‘treatment facility’.(9) The change in the official line seems to have been an attempt not only […]
[…] to decipher Israel,’ he says, ‘and if you wish to understand Israel, examine the world within which you live.’ But that apart, the views of the former Labour MP, whose father fled Germany in September 1939 and whose Hebron mother survived the Arab massacre 10 years earlier, could scarcely be more different. Burg is […]
[…] involved, and the failures of free market economics. For the reader educated by valuable past Lobster articles on the influence of the US lobby on embryonic New Labour (and since), the Reaganite doctrine that now animates the Bush administration and its speechwriters will seem familiar, and its influence in the UK even more transparent. […]
[…] 20, proposed by Griffin and seconded by Anderson). Given there was little practical outcome concerning the policy of a ‘Return to the Land’, save perhaps for free labour being carried out by NF members to renovate various properties owned by Nick Griffin over the years, it hardly needs consideration here. It is noteworthy that […]
[…] his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman […]
[…] is much harder than it looks at the outset; at any rate it is with the kind of knowledge which people like Scott have to offer and the kind of limp, career-minded politicians we now have in the Democratic and Labour parties. This is vintage Scott. He remains my model of how to do this.
[…] for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.’ () The alliance between political liberalism, mainstream (i.e. non-evangelical) Protestants, and organised labour had formed the political basis for the New Deal in the Roosevelt era. During the Depression, ‘The Federal Council of Churches had provided enthusiastic support for […]
War stories Evidence that the Royal Air Force colluded with their German enemies in the most secret air mission of the Second World War has been discovered in the Czech Republic. The personal log books of some of the 87 Czechoslovak fighter pilots who escaped the 1939 German occupation of their country to fly RAF … Read more
[…] our boys and girls in uniform by questioning their mission. For most of the rest of the time – not many long periods without wars under New Labour – critics have usually been charged with being anti-American and/or soft on communism or terrorism. The history of the decline and fall of other great powers […]
