[…] in the anti-Wilson – or, at least, anti-Heath – plots. One has to ask why Oldfield, a man who is generally regarded as being something of a liberal, was close friends with these two. Is everything we know about Oldfield wrong? Was the man a closet reactionary, or a man admired as a true […]
[…] secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende’s left-wing government, the first Marxist regime both to be democratically elected and to observe the principles of liberal democracy, had many enemies in the Chilean business and land-owning communities as well as in the Church and the military. The Right and the social forces […]
[…] of it back from them. He sees the current situation as the outcome of struggle between factions of the American ruling class, between what he calls neo- liberal multilateralism and neo-conservative unilateralism. The multilateralists were exemplified by the Trilateral Commission who, in the 1970s, during Jimmy Carter’s term, had a go at creating a […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — … Read more
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, … Read more
[…] about whom little has appeared in the British press – is at Stevenson is the figure on the left of the picture that tops William Clark’s posting. Murray’s evidence can be viewed at Murray posts a lively blog at For the apology and Godson’s 2007 ‘Newsnight’ performance, see Sunny Hundal’s ‘ Liberal Conspiracy’ story at
[…] has one, is completely investigated in its real and effective practice.’ ‘Such an approach,’ she continues, ‘allows us to step out of the constraints imposed by the liberal orthodoxy entrenched in existing literature about the role of secrecy in the British legal-rational state.’ This approach produces sections like this on pp. 8-9: ‘The interplay […]
[…] PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support to Mara’s […]
Nigel West London: Greenhill Books, 2006, £25, h/b The books of ‘West’ that I have read all have the same problem: he tells you that some of the material comes from past or present intelligence officers and hints that in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for … Read more
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less […]
