Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more
[…] question? The same process is at work when it comes to photographs. Consider three relatively famous photographs. In 1964 the Daily Mirror published a photograph of the Tory peer Lord Boothby sitting near the gangster Ronnie Kray. The German magazine Stern used the photograph with a caption that noted that both men were homosexuals. […]
HP source ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’, the drama-documentary broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 March, was a strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Marcia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is the … Read more
[…] how it was wrecked by the City’s lending explosion in 1972/3 – and on the protracted struggle between Lonrho, the Fayed brothers and various factions of the Tory Party over the ownership of Harrods. It also contains one of the best extended put-downs in recent years. This exquisite hatchet-job is on fellow Lonrho board […]
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
Edited by Anthony Gorst, Lewis Johnman and W. Scott Lucas. Pinter/Institute of Contemporary British His tory London, 1991, £35 Goodness only knows what “politics and the limits of policy’ in the subtitle is supposed to mean. This is just a collection of essays on recent British history and was initially of interest because of […]
Alwyn W. Turner London: Arum, 2008, h/b, £20 Punk monetarism The 15 years from 1969 to 1984 convulsed British society and pulverised its economy. By the end of this period, the post-war settlement, which had been assumed to last more or less indefinitely, was in ruins and the economic and social order we inhabit today … Read more
[…] But one man, Michael Eddowes, took her very seriously indeed, claiming to have spent over $100,000 of his own money following up leads generated by her s tory. To Eddowes, Novotny was the link to a Soviet plot to discredit Western leaders: “I had discovered that the group in London who had destroyed Profumo […]
[…] report that Cox had attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting. Off target Back in the 1970s the Army’s psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland once put out a s tory claiming that the IRA had hired American Vietnam vets to do its killing for them. (‘Paddy’ couldn’t really shoot straight was the subtext.) A new variation […]
[…] Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980,1983) Simon Haxey, Tory M.P. (1939) David Irving, Goering (1989) R. Lamb, The Ghosts of Peace (1987) Lobster 17 (1988) and Who’s Who of the British Secret State (1989) Interview […]
