[…] But one man, Michael Eddowes, took her very seriously indeed, claiming to have spent over $100,000 of his own money following up leads generated by her s tory. To Eddowes, Novotny was the link to a Soviet plot to discredit Western leaders: “I had discovered that the group in London who had destroyed Profumo […]
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 […]
In January 1994, three months before John Smith’s death, the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair, with wife Cherie Booth, went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government’s expense – a trip, incidentally, neither the Sopel nor Rentoul biographies of Blair mentioned. (1) Blair had always been sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers … Read more
[…] 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 […]
Blair and Gladstone Tony Blair’s Labour Party conference speech this year galvanised the delegates who were especially moved by his suggestions that Britain could play the role of an international troubleshooter, bringing liberal values, civilisation and the benefits of its skills in conflict resolution to troubled parts of the world. There were however some more … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] 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 […]
