[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
