[…] into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this s tory, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace’s biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. […]
[…] helped organise a party at the British embassy in Washington to honour the BAP – the Project newsletter reporting the event called the New Labour election vic tory the ‘Big Swing to the BAP’ – Wolfowitz was one of the guest speakers. Naughtie’s opposite number on the US advisory board is now deputy to […]
[…] 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 […]
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
[…] The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight. ‘Opium, tungsten, and the Search for National Security, 1940-52’, by Jonathan Marshall, in Journal of Policy His tory, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1991. (Published at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics USA, and, […]
[…] which he refers, not organised labour. An eminently fair-minded man he may be, but has he produced an interesting book? Yes he has, both in the s tory that he is aware that he is telling and, perhaps more importantly, for the extraordinary sidelights that, consciously or not, he sheds on official and semi-official […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs … Read more
[…] operatives of ‘the secret state’) under the bed was in every case justified; there are allusions to paranoia, qualified in one instance (p. 25) by the contradic tory statement that ‘Wilson’s paranoia … was entirely justified’. Our authors do not seem to think it would have been helpful to interview Wilson, who never emerges […]
Stephen Dorril London: Viking, 2006, £30 In his 1975 biography of Oswald Mosley, Robert (now Lord) Skidelsky very much celebrated the old fascist on his own terms, contributing, wittingly or not, to his attempted rehabilitation. Mosley, we were told in all seriousness, was always driven by his concern for ordinary people and a desire … Read more
[…] support of tens of thousands of people, he never received the kind of overt backing from senior people on the British Right, in British capital or the Tory Party given to the groups in the 1920s and ’30s. Donald Johnson MP, one of Martell’s few open supporters in the House of Commons commented: “It […]
