[…] it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole s tory. Hardly anything about Young’s political activities in the late sixties and seventies is included. Even with those omissions this is an interesting document. We tried to […]
[…] who had a girlfriend who was also Secretary of the Beaconsfield Constituency Labour Party and Blair finally got selected as a Labour bye-election candidate in a solid Tory seat, thus fleshing out his otherwise thin CV, meeting some important people (Foot, Healey etc) and making a small number of media appearances. The hunt now […]
[…] SIS seeking credit from the former satellites for taking on the Evil Empire?) White, the SIS reformer, was opposed by certain officers in Broadway, supported outside by Tory MPs like Julian Amery.(2) At pp. 169 and 170 we get an account of these ‘robber barons’, the senior officers, section heads, portrayed as seedy, complacent, […]
[…] this at all. At 900 pages, it is a massive and impressive work, one which attempts an overview of the last fifty years of MI6’s operational his tory. Perforce, the bulk of it is concerned with the Cold War, and then mainly in Europe. This isn’t overly eurocentric on Dorril’s part: his preface states […]
[…] Hill, were in court to hear the verdict. Mr Hill had denied writing the article in question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, s tory opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one […]
[…] 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 […]
