[PDF file]: All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century Alwyn Turner London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him […]
[PDF file]: […] Edward Hulton (publisher of the Picture Post and part of one of the earliest British intelligence news fronts);23 • Admiral Lord Cunningham; • and Field Marshall Lord Wilson. This unlikely grouping was unstable and at the end of 1956 Smith, Fothergill, Edwards, Ammon and others resigned, alleging, inter alia, that Common Cause was becoming […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
[PDF file]: […] the coming ‘Second Civil War’. Here in the Redoubt an authoritarian theocracy will be established after the great cataclysm. Among the adherents of this movement is Doug Wilson, who founded Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has its own day school, college and a media centre that spreads 8 the message. Wilson has […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
[…] some more detail. The back story W ithout seeking to confront the overseas lobby – the City– Bank of England–Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 and 1979 tried to create an alliance of domestic interests – unions, state and employers – to manage the domestic […]
[…] the coming ‘Second Civil War’. Here in the Redoubt an authoritarian theocracy will be established after the great cataclysm. Among the adherents of this movement is Doug Wilson, who founded Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has its own day school, college and a media centre that spreads 8 the message. Wilson has […]
[…] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]
[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]
[PDF file]: […] died at the hands of American military power while the left has been speaking truth to it. The central fact remains: the party of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones, largely funded by the trade unions, chose as leader someone who, as well as being Mrs Thatcher in all but name, […]
