[…] how their accuracy has been confirmed by the report. (See for more details.) Notes 1 Anon, ‘Labourer Accused of Murrell Killing’,Birmingham Post 4 November 2003, p.3; Jamie Wilson, ‘Two Arrested over 1984 Murder of Peace Activist’, The Guardian 17 February, 2004, p.2; Richard War-burton , ‘Murrell Mystery: Two Held by Police’, Birmingham Post, 17 […]
Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC […]
[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]
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[…] effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, p.184) When […]
[…] right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunctory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes who wandered into the strange country of the British Right […]
Donald Allen During 1987, when some of the London media were pursuing the ‘ Wilson plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from […]
Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and poor […]
[…] 1790-1988 (London, 1989). Thus Kenneth O. Morgan’s study, The People’s Peace 1945-1990 (Oxford, 1992), in many ways a fine book, barely refers to the plots against the Wilson Governments. Morgan discusses the Mountbatten incident but only on the basis of Cecil King’s diaries. There is no reference to the work of Dorril and Ramsay […]
[…] George Thomson presided over longer-term IRD activities’. (p. 138) George Thomson, later ennobled as Lord Thomson of Monifieth, was one of the leading pro-EEC members of the Wilson Cabinet and a former Chair of the Labour Committee for Europe. He resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in 1973 when Labour policy shifted into an anti-EEC […]
