[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] the book has been nicely produced. Newton is that relative rarity, an historian who is economically literate; and the result here is a mix of economics, his tory, politics – and even a dash of parapolitics – so seamless it made me wonder again how anybody ever took seriously historians who don’t know economics. […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] the miners’ strike of 1984-85, read alongside each other, offer real insights into this epochal confrontation. Seumas Milne’s updated account of this watershed moment in British his tory is investigative journalism at its very best. It is a stunning exposé of the strategy and tactics of right wing elements in the British state and […]
[…] over of the human race and create what they call the New World Order…… David Icke, who has survived massive ridicule, condemnation and misrepresentation, tells the s tory of this conspiracy and the connection with extra terrestrials and UFOs’. Something there for all the family, David. Icke sounds surprised at being ridiculed. He might […]
[…] There were some protests about the QinetiQ scandal. Mark Serwotka of the PCS union described the affair as ‘obscene’. It was condemned by various Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs, and even by the odd Labour MP. The government, however, defended it as a ‘good deal’ for the taxpayer. Indeed, Lord Drayson, then the Minister […]
[PDF file]: […] the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next s tory to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin […]
