[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] Lattimore of the Institute of Pacific Relations was not.. The scale of this project is absolutely mind-boggling and these bulletins are free on request from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA. E-mail – Unclassified is the journal of the Association of National Security Alumni, […]
[…] later. Participating in both and chairing the second was Lord Chalfont, the former Times defence correspondent Alun Gwynne Jones who was a defence minister in the 1964 Wilson government before becoming a fierce Cold War propagandist. Chalfont, a doughty defender of apartheid South Africa, became chairman of the UK wing of the Committee for […]
[…] espionage services of a super-power! For all the welcome candour of some of his interviewees, there are still corns that Urban won’t tread on. The whole ‘ Wilson plots’ revelations of 1986-89, thousands of column inches, the major cause of our present increased understanding of the British spooks, is evaded with a brief reference […]
[…] 1946 FO 1949 IRD 1956 RESIGNED FROM FO, FELLOW OF LSE 1959-60 FELLOW UNIVERSITY BUFFALO 1962 LITERARY ED OF SPECTATOR 1964-65 FELLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1976-77 FELLOW WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1977 FELLOW HOOVER INSTITUTION EDITORIAL BOARD SOVIET ANALYST COLD WARRIOR BOOKS PUBLISHED BY IRD FRONTS COOK, DON 1980 GCHQ CHIEF HONG KONG CORDEAUX, LT […]
[…] (E. P. Dutton, New York, 1978). On the day of the first ballot for the Labour leadership in 1963, appealing to the left-wing of the party, Harold Wilson called for an enquiry into the Congo story, including Tshombe’s relationship with Sir Roy Walensky and the role of the O’Brien organisation: “We know perfectly well […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
