[…] tough of the track’, a working-class track runner who would amble in from a day’s work as a plumber (?) and beat the toffs; and the Amazing Wilson, a mysterious runner who lived ‘in the hills’ and would descend now and then, dressed in black tights, to beat all-comers. I remember these characters – […]
[…] £15,000 from the Government and a £50,000 loan from Barclays Bank. It spent £85,000 on the development of ‘something’ but has no income. Curious. Directors John Henry Wilson Little Leys, Golden Common, Bramley, Surrey. Formerly of ‘Morecroft Securites Ltd. Sophia Hardy (as above) Robert Patrick Broadley-Wilson (as above) David Martin John O’Brien The Company […]
[…] militants to serve as the junior partners with US covert operations in the protection of US interests.” (RR) 16. The bodies continue to pile up around Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil. IHT (30th April 1983) reports death “by apparent suicide” of Waldo Duberstein, senior DIA analyst, who had been indicted on charges of selling […]
[…] which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘ Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was it ‘the Pinay Circle’ which co-ordinated the […]
[…] PO Box 30, Mapleton, Queensland 4560, Australia. Cold war history Students of the cold war should take note of an extraordinary project being run by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. The Cold War International History Project is attempting to keep track of, and summarise the results of, the opening […]
[…] in 1974. And then? Well – not very much, publicly: 18 years on the back-benches during which he called for an enquiry into the plots to destabilise Wilson and voted against the Poll Tax. But privately, it was a different matter. Harding, Leigh and Pallister dive into News of the World territory with a […]
[…] For more seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been […]
[…] annual rate of inflation had risen, seemingly inexorably, from 3 per cent under the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, to 4 per cent under the first Wilson administration, to 9 percent under Heath and to 15 percent under the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. By the time Margaret Thatcher became the Prime […]
[…] and 139). Of that group, only Benn mattered at all, and in the period Crozier is writing of, post 1974, he was completely marginalised by Prime Ministers Wilson and Callaghan. Yes, there were Labour MPs — a handful — who were still friendly with the Soviet bloc. Mr Crozier will not be shocked to […]
[…] the Ottoman perpetrators at least kept the Russians out of the Balkans) and worked for Irish Home Rule. He has been seen as a forerunner of Woodrow Wilson, whose crusade for national self-determination inspired millions at the end of World War One, and as one of the founders of liberalism. So how can he […]
