[PDF file]: […] below: Do spies matter? Angleton certainly did to this country, though perhaps not in his official CIA role. He fuelled the Labour-is-run-by-theSoviets theme which led to the Wilson plots, the creation of Civil Contingencies Cadre in the late 1970s and, ultimately, to Mrs Thatcher and the disastrous adoption of the free market nonsense in […]
[PDF file]: […] the abandonment of the government’s economic strategy and ‘the end of Keynesianism’. For a start, the strategy had in fact been settled in late 1975, while Harold Wilson was still Prime Minister. Its aim was to deliver both steady growth and falls in the rate of inflation, along Douglas Wass, Decline to Fall: The […]
[PDF file]: […] It is often thought this pro-nuclear policy was driven by Thatcher. This is not correct. Her governments were the beneficiaries of considerable investment during the Attlee, Macmillan, Wilson, and Heath eras with 21 Of these the Savannah, built by the US as a cargo-liner in 1962, proved uneconomical and was decommissioned in 1971. Russia […]
[PDF file]: […] This would have reduced the Treasury’s role significantly and would have Brown left with little power. It sounds similar to the arrangements put in place by Harold Wilson and George Brown in 1964 with the Department of Economic Affairs….so much for New Labour. 45 Winter 2010 position.1 9 The spectacle of a political party […]
[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]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster All Trussed up On the day that Prime Minister Truss made her announcement about dealing with the energy crisis here, The Times (8 September) briefly mentioned (on p. 39) that the Chancellor […]
[PDF file]: […] Sachs personnel involved with the Obama administration is at < http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/46267>. 18 Despite the recent flurry of low-level activity by the British FSA. See, for example, Harry Wilson, ‘FSA charges seven over “£2.5m insider-trading ring” , Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2010. 121 Summer 2010 comment is from the generally excellent Washington’s blog: ‘The Senate […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
