[…] annual rate of inflation had risen, seemingly inexorably, from 3 per cent under the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, to 4 per cent under the first Wilson administration, to 9 percent under Heath and to 15 percent under the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. By the time Margaret Thatcher became the Prime […]
[…] and 139). Of that group, only Benn mattered at all, and in the period Crozier is writing of, post 1974, he was completely marginalised by Prime Ministers Wilson and Callaghan. Yes, there were Labour MPs — a handful — who were still friendly with the Soviet bloc. Mr Crozier will not be shocked to […]
[…] the Ottoman perpetrators at least kept the Russians out of the Balkans) and worked for Irish Home Rule. He has been seen as a forerunner of Woodrow Wilson, whose crusade for national self-determination inspired millions at the end of World War One, and as one of the founders of liberalism. So how can he […]
[…] of which he was Secretary. Published in 1968, an A2 format pamphlet, Biafra included some acute insights into the politics of oil, the feeble response of the Wilson Government, and the role of the tame British Africa correspondents recycling the Foreign Office line — almost everything, in fact, except the Harold Smith material. Non-lethal […]
[…] the manderins could never close again. Notes This section of book was published in the Sunday Times 24 August 1997. The episode also involved Prime Minister Harold Wilson acting as go-between – another example of Wilson trying to be a ‘good boy’ where the spooks were concerned. MI5 had it in for Mountbatten and […]
[…] the radical right-wing think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, became an MEP in 1994 and ran the Referendum Party 1996/1997. He received a knighthood from Harold Wilson in 1976 for ‘services to ecology’. This is thought to have been a Wilsonian joke. The real reason for the honour is thought to be Goldsmith’s […]
[…] UK equivalent would be the underground press of the late sixties and early seventies. Thomas’s heroes are the likes of Timothy Leary, Wilhem Reich and Robert Anton- Wilson, and you might find a copy of Oz or IT which had pieces about two of those three. (Anton-Wilson appeared a little later.) This is probably […]
[…] as an apparently reliable source – indeed, McKittrick (quoting an unidentified Wallace) was one of the first journalists to break the stories of MI5 operations against the Wilson government. Some of the McKittrick material (and the piece by Ware which accompanied it) is very bad journalism, and by a long way the worst thing […]
[…] Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay Interviews and talks Article: Sunday Herald in 17 August 2003. See also: Robin Ramsay at […]
[…] and Liberal politicians to assess the interest in a coalition dominated by The Focus. (12) Focus friends in the media In the media The Focus eventually recruited Wilson Harris (The Spectator), Kingsley Martin (New Statesman), Lady Rhonda (Time and Tide) and Harcourt Johnstone (The Economist). Using a publishing company it had set up, Union […]
