[…] 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 […]
The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland […]
[…] the debate about trade union influence declining under Thatcher and Blair there are now more union sponsored MPs than there were in either the Attlee or Wilson eras. But what do the GMB (and other unions) get out of this? Why do they do it? The Labour Party Conference at Bournemouth in 2003 […]
[…] industry in the world — and far too much of the UK’s R and D was being consumed by the effort to compete with the USA/USSR. Harold Wilson knew this even if others didn’t: he ‘saw clearly what Snow’s scientific humanism could not bear to see: the deeply warlike orientation of English science and […]
[…] is the same Dr. Lindstrom noted for his pioneering use of ultrasonics in neurosurgery.(43) Lincoln Lawrence’s book has received a strong endorsement indeed. That’s Entrainment Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of The Illuminatus Trilogy, recently has taken to promoting a new generation of ‘mind machines’ designed to promote creativity, stimulate learning, and alter consciousness — […]
[…] the ISTC steel-workers’ union 1953-67 and sometime member of the Labour Party’s national executive and TUC general council; Ray Gunter, Minister of Labour in the first two Wilson governments; Owen O’Brien, general secretary of the printers’ union SOGAT; Bill Sirs, another ISTC general secretary; and Sir Jack Smart, a former leader of Wakefield Council […]
[…] on the Korean Biological Warfare Allegations’ by Milton Leitenberg, pp.185-196. A copy of the Bulletin is available free on request from: Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20523 tel: 202 691-4110 fax: 202 691 4184 Last time I checked, […]
[…] your demise but I never thought you were for real. Provocative or provocateur, you decide. Beyond Parody On 5 September the novelist and Daily Telegraph columnist A.N. Wilson announced the end of his column on the Telegraph Website which apparently — I have never read it — parodied the Prime Minister. Wilson wrote: ‘My […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] London. Robin Ramsay Ware on Wallace I became aware of John Ware when he joined the side of the sceptics about Colin Wallace during the great Wallace-Wright- Wilson plots events of 1987. Ware had been one of the many journalists who went to interview Colin Wallace at his home in Arundel that year. Rather […]
