[PDF file]: […] political figure of his time. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell suddenly died in 1963, George Brown was widely expected to be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] didn’t know that the Iraqis had scrapped their WMDs.’ Innocents abroad? Belatedly I flipped through a copy of the memoir of the former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game (Simon and Schuster, 2007). Plame Wilson had her CIA cover blown by the Bush regime because her diplomat husband hadn’t gone along with the […]
[PDF file]: […] more that when Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher was published, I was so focused on the sections which supported Colin Wallace’s story of secret state machinations against the Wilson government, I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a story it is. To recap […]
[PDF file]: […] access – but when I had access to it and initially skimmed across its sections, she was using it to attack/critique the treatment of her and Harold Wilson, in the books of Joe Haines (Glimmers of Twilight) and Bernard Donoughue (Downing Street Diary). The fascist plot to take the White House in 1933 I […]
[…] and Alec Cairncross, Goodbye Great Britain: the 1976 IMF Crisis (Yale University Press, 1992) p. 70. 4 Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 5 2 and also by the IMF official in charge of the IMF team in London – […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] British Embassy in Dublin. He became an Assistant Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office in 1975 to replace Michael Cudlipp, who had been appointed by Harold Wilson the previous year as information adviser to Merlyn Rees, the Northern Ireland Secretary 4 See Document 1 in the separate Wallace Appendices file 5 5 report. […]
[PDF file]: […] self-education course on the 1970s and the British Right. After the publication of issue 11, I had assumed that the major media would pick up the ‘ Wilson plots’ story and I went back to the library to continue reading about the British right.3 Looking back, it is extraordinary that Steve Dorrril and I […]
[PDF file]: […] of Public Information to be able to render a seemingly spontaneous speech ‘within 5 minutes’ at any venue in order to agitate for US war aims. Woodrow Wilson pronounced that the US was entering WWI for this purpose. Wilson’s attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer led the sweeping police raids against political dissidents between 1919-1920. […]
