[…] Evans. The other two members were Michael Beloff QC and James Goudie QC. Beloff and Goudie were not only closely connected with the Blairs but also the Labour Party. These relationships were of prime importance because my appeal concerned data which, if it existed, could only have related to the Blairs’ attempt to have […]
[…] since A. J. P. Taylor managed a coherent account of the Austro-Hungarian empire in a single volume. Dorril has a general theme, perhaps two, but he doesn’t labour them: the diminution of Britain as a world power, and the way in which covert political operations attempted to oppose this, while at the same time […]
[…] Fred appeared in it. My phone only began to ring when the first rumours began to arrive about Peter Wright’s Spycatcher book. While Colin’s stories of anti- Labour psy-ops issuing from the Army and the spooks in Northern Ireland could be ignored (he had been in jail and had been a professional disinformer, after […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay […]
[…] wouldn’t surprise me much, considering how many little remnants of the British Empire are drug traffic air-strips – but had the charge been levelled by a senior Labour Party figure, since the Tories are unwilling to reveal their sources of income, what could they have done but deny it? Challen works for the Labour […]
[…] injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one account of particular […]
[…] dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a complete […]
[…] ink’ person in the world and turned out to have been written in or around 1974. His claims to have been working with Airey Neave on anti- Labour speeches have been substantiated: the letters between them and press reports of the speeches Neave made with Wallace’s material were shown on Channel 4 News. Despite […]
[…] August 1987 the Kilburn Times reported a vitriolic attack by Western Goals (UK) on Ken Livingstone MP (whose constituency includes Kilburn): ‘Livingstone and his friends in London’s Labour councils want to encourage more homosexuals to come out of the closet and spread their perverted filth. The gay rights policy which he is preparing to […]
[…] House of Commons in 1976, under attack from his own benches during a debate on public expenditure, turning round at the despatch box and shouting to his Labour critics: ‘And you can go and fuck yourselves.’ The most striking figure in the story, however, is Edward Heath, portrayed by Goodman as a centre-left European […]
