[PDF file]: […] and following the necessary hospital bureaucracy, her body was transported to north Manchester’s tahara house.4 Misaskim then asked Rabbi Yossi Jacobs and the chairman of John F. Wilson, Ferranti. a History: Volume 3: Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 (Manchester University Press, 2013). 3 4 A building where Jewish bodies are ritually cleansed. 2 Birmingham’s […]
[PDF file]: […] Prisoner Number Seven in Spandau when the medical care of the prisoners had never been the responsibility of the US Army. I sent their questions to Emily Wilson, editor of New Scientist, in the hope that ‘the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine’ might undertake the gathering of some answers. Like Prime Minister […]
[PDF file]: […] national happiness peaked’, The Independent, 17 March 2004 at or . 15 The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In […]
[…] by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘ Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. These days it doesn’t seem so significant. Would the average MP today be more afraid of the Daily […]
[PDF file]: […] the Realm (London: Allen Lane, 2009) writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]
[PDF file]: […] 2019 . economy under Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron disregarded and avoided this terminology, few now remember such language as being solidly mainstream and commonplace under Wilson and Heath. Nor do many realize that such views remain standard across the EU. Corbyn’s economic policies are not, of course, based on the consensus that […]
[PDF file]: […] effect. Not since George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, ran for the Presidency in 1968 had ‘a presidential candidate spoken in this way. Not since Woodrow Wilson had such an outspoken racist occupied the White House’. (p. 87) And on top of that he appealed to the notion of masculinity that had gripped […]
[PDF file]: […] split apparent in the aftermath of the World War One between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ internationalists, then all largely based on the East Coast. As followers of Woodrow Wilson, the liberals believed in the US as a global hegemon, bringing peace and democracy, through its leading role in the League of Nations. The ‘conservative internationalists’, […]
[PDF file]: […] my copy. Apart from other subtle changes, specifically, the intelligence section was removed. It was too late, I had the genuine copy, verified by Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, formerly on the political staff at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he had examined and verified the authenticity of the CIA report. He was a senior British […]
[PDF file]: […] on the other’ that were opening up in the 1960s, one other sign of which was the secret and treacherous right-wing plotting that went on against Harold Wilson at this time. (Not that there’s any evidence that he was involved in that.) So far as Aden and the rest of the Empire were concerned, […]
