[…] Brigade’ was claiming responsibility for setting fire to a magistrate’s court in Epping. The Angry Brigade? That ‘Angry Brigade’? In May the Daily Mail ran a s tory about a fictitious ‘Gay Rights Action Movement’ which was threatening members of the House of Lords. (reported in Tribune 13 May 1988) But the most interesting, […]
[…] and at the Eye he nursed an unrequited passion for Patrick Marnham.”(5) The first indication that the Eye may have been used appeared in the official his tory of the Eye written by Marnham. He wrote that “(Wilson’s) … return as Prime Minister in March 1974 was followed by a barrage of anonymous information […]
[…] in part in the analysis in Lobster 11 and Smear!, Larkin correctly identifies the anti-communist, anti-subversion alliance formed by elements within Whitehall and a section of the Tory Party but oversimplifies it and makes many errors of detail. For example, on p.182 he writes of the ‘right wing of the British establishment (Airey Neave, […]
[…] the figures were: 1978 -72 1987 -164 This doubling over the period of the Thatcher years is very interesting. For while the South and Midlands has voted Tory, Scotland has been moving leftwards throughout the Thatcher period – the Tories now have only slightly more than 10% of the Parliamentary seats in Scotland. And […]
[…] of the UCA smear published in Lobster 14. We sent out 50 copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the s tory and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regula tory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had […]
[…] said. This section is missing from the book. It’s not that Taylor actually tries to avoid this area: it just doesn’t get its due. The biggest s tory, the most important development, in our knowledge of the Loyalist paramilitaries in the past ten – maybe twenty – years gets three and a bit pages […]
Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World Mark Curtis London: Vintage, 2003; p/b, £7.99 This latest analysis of British foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large … Read more
[…] at his side, toured the City’s dining rooms announcing Labour’s conversion to economic orthodoxy – the most complete and protracted act of political surrender in British his tory this century. Further, while John Smith was spurning the skills of Mr Mandelson and wooing the money-lenders he was a member of the Steering Committee of […]
[…] decades of corruption and bribery at the very heart of Italian politics. Tony Blair came to power promising to be ‘whiter than white’ after the decade of Tory sleaze and corruption culminating in the Scott Report into the arms for Iraq scandal. The idea of being a cleansing force in politics was central to […]
