[…] question? The same process is at work when it comes to photographs. Consider three relatively famous photographs. In 1964 the Daily Mirror published a photograph of the Tory peer Lord Boothby sitting near the gangster Ronnie Kray. The German magazine Stern used the photograph with a caption that noted that both men were homosexuals. […]
[…] himself said that rather than disband, the IRA could reconstitute itself as a ‘commemorative association’. This outrageous capitulation to IRA terrorism, on the part of a ‘green Tory’ Prime Minister, was duly reported on the RTE, BBC Northern Ireland and Channel 4 News programmes on the same day. Most grotesque, was his claim that […]
[…] his various books? Confirmation – if any were still needed – of the grotesque time-wasting that goes on under the name of ‘counter intelligence’ given in s tory of self-confessed ‘anarchist’, Peter Edge, and his dealings with British and East German intelligence. (Observer 7 October 1984). Edge apparently came forward with his story because […]
[…] community has a-plenty, have long been needed to access highly-educated world-wide alliances and infiltrate networks bound together by clan ties. To do this, it could be manda tory for them to betray some friends and/or family members. In addition, their spouse, or child, could be forced to drop a particular relative or playmate if […]
Edited by Anthony Gorst, Lewis Johnman and W. Scott Lucas. Pinter/Institute of Contemporary British His tory London, 1991, £35 Goodness only knows what “politics and the limits of policy’ in the subtitle is supposed to mean. This is just a collection of essays on recent British history and was initially of interest because of […]
[…] The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted his tory of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he merely […]
[…] period which continues to define him for many people and provides a great deal of the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but […]
[…] Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980,1983) Simon Haxey, Tory M.P. (1939) David Irving, Goering (1989) R. Lamb, The Ghosts of Peace (1987) Lobster 17 (1988) and Who’s Who of the British Secret State (1989) Interview […]
I: Wilson, Cromer and the City One anniversary which has come and gone this year without much comment is the attempted 1968 ‘coup’ orchestrated by Cecil King against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. The plot was provoked by collapse of confidence in Wilson in the media (led by King’s Daily Mirror), finance, industry and … Read more
[…] present orientation of a group which used to be devoted to the propagation of (first) the Empire and then the Commonwealth. “In the longer sweep of his tory we have to understand that the basic supposition of our national policy towards the European mainland has been transformed since 1945. For four centuries we secured […]
