[…] 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 […]
Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]
[…] 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 […]
Wick the forgotten One of the most prestigious, yet least challenging, posts in British journalism is that of Washington correspondent. Prestigious because of the importance of the United States; but least challenging because the natives speak English, more or less; and there are so many ready-made stories ripe for recycling to Britain, as the Internet […]
[…] 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
[…] assertion that ‘at sea drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind’. Elwell’s energetic attempts to drown figures as varied as Harold Wilson and Chris Mullin continued after his formal retirement from countering ‘domestic subversion’ as head of F section in 1979. Working with Margaret Thatcher’s aide during the […]
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 […]
