[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’ […]
[…] 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]: […] 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. […]
[…] is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, 1991). INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics 87 been reprinted; some are out of priI1t and […]
[PDF file]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 […]
[PDF file]: […] foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought to stay, the […]
