[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to 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 […]
[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to 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 – […]
