[PDF file]: […] De Gaulle’s veto of the UK’s bid – ‘by 1970’. On file are notes of Lemass’s talks with Duncan Sandys (mainly about Cyprus and peace-keeping operations), Harold Wilson (highly generalised with Wilson not making specific commitments, or positive suggestions) and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (on trade and Europe, with Douglas-Home not saying very […]
[PDF file]: […] EEC. This was held on June 5 1975. 2 position, negotiated some changes to Britain’s terms of membership and recommended the public endorse these in the referendum. Wilson was successful and Britain voted by 2:1 to stay in the EEC. The 1975 referendum did not succeed in putting the question of Britain’s place in […]
[…] espousing some of the conspiracy theories. Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s Trump unveiled: exposing the bigoted billionaire is the place to start.7 Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a 4 David Brock, Blinded by the Right (New […]
[PDF file]: […] to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s memoirs, the […]
[PDF file]: […] Frankfurt, to establish banking houses in London, Paris, Naples and Vienna, the House of Rothschild managed to be both very powerful yet almost supernaturally discreet. As Derek Wilson observes in his study, Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power (1988): ‘Seldom were to be seen engaging in open public debate on important issues. Never […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton The Four Freedoms Most people these days associate the term ‘The Four Freedoms’ with the European Union (EU). They are central to the functioning of the European single market, relating to the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and people throughout the countries which compose it. The existence of a […]
[PDF file]: […] would he provide the House with a brief characterisation of the political philosophy which he espouses and which underlies his policies?’ Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, A.N. Wilson described what followed: ‘Mr Blair was, for the moment, uncharacteristically, silenced. Then, he began to waffle in his customary fashion. He spoke of NHS investment plans […]
[PDF file]: […] they ascribed to inadequate or even treacherous political leadership. Put at its simplest, they wanted to remove figures they saw as causing the decline (such as Harold Wilson, deemed to be a secret communist, and Edward Heath, deemed to be a closet socialist and also supposedly homosexual) and replace them with a much more […]
[PDF file]: […] the preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (see below). Back in the noughties I wrote a piece about the travails of the Wilson government on its election in 1964. Why did it not devalue? I called it ‘The two sterling crises of 1964 and the decision not to devalue’ […]
[PDF file]: […] forces that had so impoverished our country in preceding decades. . . (Emphases added.) ‘Hardline socialist forces’ – does he mean the administrations of Labour PMs Attlee, Wilson and Callaghan? And if not, what? Was Britain ‘so impoverished. . . in preceding decades’? I asked Google for UK economic growth 1945-79 and got the […]
