[…] is just that, a story, that Blair received Israeli government money fronted by ‘businessmen’. Either way, as has been demonstrated in Bernard Donoughue’s Dairies of the 1974-76 Wilson government, reviewed in Lobster 49, Labour, Israel and British Jewish businessmen is not a new story. Now that David Cameron looks like a possible winner, he […]
[…] monitoring station at Little Sai Wan in Hong Kong (UKC 201 in the international Sigint network) provided the Americans with intelligence up to 1975, long after Harold Wilson had – publicly at least – expressed his Government’s opposition to the war. The NSA co-ordinated all signals intelligence in SE Asia, and Little Sai Wan […]
[…] own machinery to service politically-moderate trade union leaders.'(68) Servic(ing) trade union leaders? IRIS, like Common Cause, is more important than has generally been thought. Labour MP and Wilson Cabinet member, Charles Pannell (later Lord Pannell) described to Irving Richter in the early 1970s his friendship with Cecil Hallett, General Secretary of the AEU (and […]
[…] were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call the tune? Only the misty-eyed romantics would believe for one moment […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]
[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]
[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The Wilson ‘mystery’ again The first section of this about The Times appeared in a slightly different form under my name in Fortean Times. On 22 August The Times published the latest episode in the long-running saga of ‘Why did Harold Wilson resign as […]
