[…] Hill, were in court to hear the verdict. Mr Hill had denied writing the article in question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, s tory opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one […]
[…] of the UCA smear published in Lobster 14. We sent out 50 copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the s tory and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the […]
[…] public meeting. An individual was invited to it who has never been a Socialist, who will never be prepared to vote Labour and who thinks that the Tory party is the natural governing party of Britain. He was invited to share a platform with myself and some of the relatives of those who have […]
[…] are really not very interesting. Volume 1, the memories of people involved in the 1975 referendum, contains almost nothing that we didn’t know already. The familiar s tory is re-told: the ‘anti’ campaign had little money and, because they were composed of the Labour left and Tory right, had difficulty working together; they didn’t […]
[…] into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this s tory, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace’s biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. […]
Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after … Read more
[…] is meant to muddy the waters and confuse the investigations of two quite separate but still unsolved events. Finally, Murray offers us a jumbled but fascinating s tory about Searchlight editor Gerry Gable. We are told that in 1986 there was evidence of an attempt to abduct and kill Gable, who then spoke to […]
[…] only which parties the rich support. His approach is unquestioningly conservative. This edition is an update of the author’s now classic book from 1981 on the his tory of the super-rich in Britain. It coincided with the rise of so-called ‘Thatcherism’, and with an academic debate around the apparent paradox of industrial decline and […]
[…] In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the s tory may have come from in the late forties. Kilgallen said if the story is true it would (one word illegible: cause?) terrible embarrassment to Jack and […]
[…] adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside S tory, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from […]
