[PDF file]: […] rich and super rich. The short answer in 1945 was that Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 actually began working for the Labour government. This is the s tory that Daniel Lomas chronicles, breaking considerable welcome new ground in the process. He makes the point that accounts of the Attlee government have usually focussed on […]
[PDF file]: […] catastrophic financial implosion of major banks and their ilk, most notably those in the USA and Britain. Much has been written about the failures of formal regula tory regime for banks and their ilk, but surprisingly little media and political attention has been given to the failure of the part played by the general […]
[PDF file]: […] the British State and society. Seeking to identify who was behind all this, Matthews very rightly points to a complex of senior armed forces personnel, intelligence officers, Tory MPs and Peers, as well as leading landowners and members of the Royal Household. But the peace party was not limited to these groups. It also […]
[PDF file]: […] is Exposed’, although no plot as described by Beloff existed. At this point the campaign around Prentice started using these themes. The person who reignited the s tory on the failure to publish the Underhill Report (at this point it was now twenty-nine pages) on the eve of the 1979 election was Neville Sandelson […]
[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
[PDF file]: […] protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with the Qatada-Hamza-linked GIA. The s tory given to the authorised media by the vested intelligence agencies is that Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the new bin Laden, nicknamed ‘the uncatchable’ by French intelligence (Algeria […]
[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
[…] MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
