[…] was the 20 page offering by Steve Brady to Pearce dated 23 February 1986. In it he outlined many of the criticisms of the NF’s recent trajec tory, including: the use of ‘pseudo-revolutionary sloganisings’ (p. 8), in particular the ideas of Corneliu Codreanou (p. 17), and the rhetoric of the ‘political soldier’, seen as […]
[…] with that in the Secret Intelligence Service. Since he chose to include this entry in his diary, he is giving his readers a hint that the s tory about him being in SIS is true. Does disinformation work? In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I commented on the disinformation project Operation Horseshoe, a purported Serb […]
[…] the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to be repeated: ‘The Labour apparatchiks swallowed whole the late Tory view that the public does not exist……. everyone is a customer; all services and professions are businesses.’ The public did seem to exist as protests against […]
[…] was released from his war duties in the Royal Naval Air Service. He soon struck up a working relationship with Henry Page Croft, a tariff reform/anti-Indian self-government Tory MP. Soon afterwards Page Croft was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Hertford (was this a coincidence?), split from Lloyd George’s coalition and launched the National Party. Their […]
[…] became aware that the conventional narrative structure which is used to give sense and meaning to British politics was extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but […]
Gregory Palast is the journalist who broke the ‘cash for access’ story in The Observer. Here is the text of a letter he wrote on August 18 1999 to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Neill Committee, by way of a preface and request to give oral evidence to that committee. My recommendations … Read more
Preface This paper was written for the His tory Workshop 20 in Leeds, during November 1986. In the workshop which I gave, I introduced the paper by pointing out that the arguments within it were very general and the paper itself entirely polemical. I explained that each of my last three books contain detailed […]
[…] be shot or, like Oleg Penkofsky, lowered slowly into a well stoked furnace while colleagues were forced to watch.’ As far as I am aware, this s tory about the furnace first appeared as the prologue to Victor Suvorov’s Aquarium (Grafton, London, 1987). Except in that version the person fed into the furnace in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
