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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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
According to the Dublin magazine Magill (August 1984), Frank Terpil was ‘kicked out’ of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at […]
[…] they sent him a telegram offering their support and sympathy – they could not believe he was guilty. Wickham-Boynton and Arroyo were friends of Lord MONTAGU. Angus Wilson (Tony Garrett) Felsham Woodside Bradfield St. George Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Tel Rattlesden 200 This is Sir Angus Wilson, the distinguished novelist, who was born on […]
