[…] Hill, were in court to hear the verdict. Mr Hill had denied writing the article in question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, s tory opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regula tory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had […]
[…] said. This section is missing from the book. It’s not that Taylor actually tries to avoid this area: it just doesn’t get its due. The biggest s tory, the most important development, in our knowledge of the Loyalist paramilitaries in the past ten – maybe twenty – years gets three and a bit pages […]
Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World Mark Curtis London: Vintage, 2003; p/b, £7.99 This latest analysis of British foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large … Read more
[…] at his side, toured the City’s dining rooms announcing Labour’s conversion to economic orthodoxy – the most complete and protracted act of political surrender in British his tory this century. Further, while John Smith was spurning the skills of Mr Mandelson and wooing the money-lenders he was a member of the Steering Committee of […]
[…] of the UCA smear published in Lobster 14. We sent out 50 copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the s tory and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the […]
[…] is meant to muddy the waters and confuse the investigations of two quite separate but still unsolved events. Finally, Murray offers us a jumbled but fascinating s tory about Searchlight editor Gerry Gable. We are told that in 1986 there was evidence of an attempt to abduct and kill Gable, who then spoke to […]
[…] public meeting. An individual was invited to it who has never been a Socialist, who will never be prepared to vote Labour and who thinks that the Tory party is the natural governing party of Britain. He was invited to share a platform with myself and some of the relatives of those who have […]
[…] indication that there are continuities with anti-Left operations dating back to Heseltine and Crozier’s days. CER’s office is 29 Tufton Street, Westminster, which they share with the Tory Reform Group which contains Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, Lord Hurd, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and a host of other top Conservatives. The office is also used bythe Action […]
[…] adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside S tory, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from […]
