[…] period which continues to define him for many people and provides a great deal of the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but […]
[…] community has a-plenty, have long been needed to access highly-educated world-wide alliances and infiltrate networks bound together by clan ties. To do this, it could be manda tory for them to betray some friends and/or family members. In addition, their spouse, or child, could be forced to drop a particular relative or playmate if […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted his tory of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he merely […]
I: Wilson, Cromer and the City One anniversary which has come and gone this year without much comment is the attempted 1968 ‘coup’ orchestrated by Cecil King against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. The plot was provoked by collapse of confidence in Wilson in the media (led by King’s Daily Mirror), finance, industry and … Read more
[…] car, the Customs had found documentation of a massive purchase of the LSD base, ergotamine tartrate, but failed to see its significance.(6) When Stark moved his labora tory from Paris to Orleans, he claimed he had been warned about an impending raid on the lab when, ‘by chance’, he ran into an old pal […]
How public relations became the cutting edge of corporate power David Miller and William Dinan London: Pluto, 2008; £45 h/b and £14.99 p/b This is big stuff, ambitious and wide-ranging with an enormous amount packed into 180 pages of text (with 50 pages of notes, tables and index). Many books are too long: this is … Read more
[…] rerun, though not with the same conviction as before. The ‘rogue elephant’ theme, recycled by Mooney, was launched, unnoticed, by Chapman Pincher in 1978, in Inside S tory. ‘In the psychological war against the IRA, the Army ran an ‘Information Policy’ operation in which false stories were foisted on newspapers to such an extent […]
[…] of informers. That has the potential to completely undermine the effectiveness of any investigation.’ Scott free Mark Phythian, Professor of International Security and Director of the His tory and Governance Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton, compares and contrasts the Scott and Hutton inquiries, the resulting reports () which ‘… the process whereby the British […]
[…] (1) What a coincidence! The day before the government’s new Bill to increase its anti-terrorism powers came into force the Sunday Telegraph (18 February) carried a s tory headed, ‘Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas in London’. Said story contained not a single verifiable fact, suspect’s name, terror group’s name, nor reference […]
