[…] money’; and, unusually honest for a politician, he notes: ‘So bad was the economic situation inherited by Labour in 1974…………it would have been a miracle if the Wilson and Callaghan administrations that followed had been able to correct it in a short five years.’ (p. 146) He gives a fairly detailed account of the […]
[…] subscription can be ordered with Visa/Mastercard by calling 1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802 or by e-mail. Or a check can be sent to The Media Consortium, Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. Gary Webb, whose articles on the ‘Dark Alliance’ kicked the contra/CIA/cocaine story into public consciousness and his career as a journalist into […]
[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]
[…] http://www.schnews.org.uk/hotstuff/gandalf/index.htm SchNEWS update, with details of the July 1998 appeal, when the ‘gandalf 3’ had their convictions overturned. (See elsewhere in this issue.) Blackops http://gate.cruzio.com/~blackops/ Robert Anton Wilson and Miriam Joan Hill’s Encyclopaedia of Conspiracy Homepage. Conspiracies listed from A (AIDS, Anti-gravity, James Angleton) to Z (Zapatistas, Phil Zimmerman and PGP, Protocols of the […]
[…] Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year Ken Livingstone’s talk was entirely about the Wilson government and the destabilisation campaign. Made Watergate look like taking candy from a child, I think was the expression. Ken for leader. American Congress for Irish […]
[…] pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, is worth noting for the final three in which Kenneth O. Morgan on Wilson, editor Tiratsoo on the 1970s and Paul Hirst on the Thatcher period, firmly reject the conventional neo-liberal/Thatcherite redemption drama of slow descent through the sixties into […]
[…] No: D 7364 C. I. A. This Certificate of Credentials is issued under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is requested that the bearer be afforded the necessary help to enable him to satisfactorily discharge his duties. 15 November 1971: Harold Wilson visits Northern Ireland. Briefing officer J. C. Wallace listens with interest.
Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw’s briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Renewal, new series, number 8, £3.00 ‘Jack Straw’s briefing’ is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US ‘star wars’ missile defence system. Coates’ title comes from current US military ‘doctrine’, […]
[…] to go there!’ After a couple of minutes of this there weren’t many places where you would want to go; I think the Kennedy assassinations and the Wilson plots were still fair game, but that was more or less it. Anything which had been written about by anyone irrational or obsessive – or merely […]
[…] Express would publish them on the eve of the next election. Gaitskell made his conference speech and died shortly afterwards. Beaverbrook died in 1964, the year Harold Wilson became prime minister. Twigged There was scarcely a hiccup in the largely tax-funded career of Stephen Twigg after the junior education minister lost his Enfield Southgate […]
