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’, […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] 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 […]
[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]
[…] Links to other National, European and International archive resources, eg Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Cold War International History Project http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm ‘CWIHP was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1991. The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of […]
[…] is a good 1930s word which fits rather well. Britain as another US protectorate? (5) Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to […]
[…] sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo-liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes on as a lefty, the inheritor of […]
[…] in the 50s, 60s and 70s, where there was no public triumphalism, and their role in the 1980s. ‘The Britain of Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson did not need soldier heroes. This changed in the 1980s when the SAS found themselves enlisted as Thatcher’s Praetorian Guard, their exploits, both past and present, […]
[…] conservatism. Published the Empire Citizen. The BWL was secretly funded by Hannon’s BCU, the money laundered through another of Hannon’s creations, Comrades of the Great War. Havelock Wilson, founder of the Seaman’s Union, one of the union leaders bought by Hannon, was Vice President of the BWL. (1) Some of these operations were detected […]
