[…] state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti- Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, me paranoid?’ reference: ‘You are probably […]
Disclosure Unravelling the Spycops Files Kate Wilson London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2025, £20, h/b Robin Ramsay Asa Winstanley (associate editor of The Electronic Intifada)1 made the point that the spycops story is Britain’s version of the America’s Cointelpro.2 It should have been one of the biggest political scandals in our domestic politics since the […]
[PDF file]: […] a misnomer, as he identifies two reinventions. The first is the embrace of a form of European social democracy by Harold Macmillan and his successors, notably Harold Wilson, from 1960 onwards. The second is the plotting of a new course from 1979 onwards, away from economic planning, intervention and – critically – support for […]
[PDF file]: […] Republican and Democratic parties during the US mid-term elections, campaigning for which ran from May to the close of polls on 5th November 1918.1 US President Woodrow Wilson issued his suggestions about the type of peace he regarded as desirable in January 1918. These envisaged a post-war world in which much emphasis was placed […]
[PDF file]: […] state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti- Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, me paranoid?’ reference: ‘You are probably […]
[PDF file]: […] lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. […]
[PDF file]: […] relationship with the US and, after a period of engagement, a gradual step by step separation from Europe. It didn’t always look like this, of course. Macmillan, Wilson and Heath all came to the view that the UK had to join the Common Market. Delays in participating with Europe between 1946 and 1960, when […]
[PDF file]: […] advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were partly responsible. That is […]
[PDF file]: […] increased arms expenditure – overseas expenditure paid for by domestic cuts – proposed by Labour Chancellor Gaitskell which led to the resignation of Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson from the government in 1951. The Tories return The arrival of the Conservative Government in 1951 saw the return of interest rates – that is, putting […]
[PDF file]: […] know that the Texas Congressman’s success in obtaining enormous finance and sophisticated weaponry for the Mujahdineen was strongly promoted by the Israeli lobby in Washington to which Wilson was very close.41 Mujahdineen training by the US, UK and Israel as part of well-funded Operation Cyclone is a matter of record. One assumes that Blunkett, […]
