[…] which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘ Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was it ‘the Pinay Circle’ which co-ordinated the […]
[…] PO Box 30, Mapleton, Queensland 4560, Australia. Cold war history Students of the cold war should take note of an extraordinary project being run by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. The Cold War International History Project is attempting to keep track of, and summarise the results of, the opening […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] For more seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been […]
[…] in 1974. And then? Well – not very much, publicly: 18 years on the back-benches during which he called for an enquiry into the plots to destabilise Wilson and voted against the Poll Tax. But privately, it was a different matter. Harding, Leigh and Pallister dive into News of the World territory with a […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
