[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The Wilson ‘mystery’ again The first section of this about The Times appeared in a slightly different form under my name in Fortean Times. On 22 August The Times published the latest episode in the long-running saga of ‘Why did Harold Wilson resign as […]
[PDF file]: […] exerted by wealthy freelance individuals (or companies) operating at arms-length from government. The circumstances around the establishment of Radio Caroline fit with this theory.1 5 Fighting Mr Wilson Despite the curious memo prepared for the Director-General of the BBC, the Conservative government lead by Prime Minister Douglas-Home government took no action against Radio Caroline. […]
[…] big recent news in the field is the appearance of a 15-page set of notes, apparently of a conversation in 2002 between retired U.S. Admiral Thomas Ray Wilson and Dr Eric Davis, a physicist and UFO-believer. http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/16000/eric-who-the-admiral/ Eric who? — the Admiral Posted on June 15, 2020 by Billy Cox The admiral at the […]
[PDF file]: […] no major arguments being made or proposals published by anyone in the Labour Party. The absence of real debate or consideration of possible alternatives is striking. 1 Wilson joined the SDP while at university in 1987. He followed a minority of its members into the Conservative Party (Danny Finkelstein being one), was elected a […]
[PDF file]: […] two areas: what it said about MI5’s relationship with the British left since WW2, and particularly the role of the CPGB in British politics; and the so-called Wilson plots. * There are some spectacular omissions. Andrew quotes this from an MI5 assessment of the subversive influence in the media in the 1970s: ‘There have […]
[…] two areas: what it said about MI5’s relationship with the British left since WW2, and particularly the role of the CPGB in British politics; and the so-called Wilson plots. Let’s take the left first. Elsewhere in this issue is my contribution to the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s book on the 1984 miners’ […]
[PDF file]: […] competitors and a long series of diagnoses of British economic failure were published in the late fifties and sixties, contributing to the climate which helped elect the Wilson government in 1964.1 3 A feature of this 10 Ibid. p. 130 11 Samuel Brittan, Steering the Economy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). p. 130 12 MacDougall, Don […]
[PDF file]: […] that are 80 years old: if this were the case today they would be equipped exclusively with pre-WW2 biplanes.9 It’s all very different from 1965 when the Wilson government ordered 46 Nimrod aircraft so that the Comet production lines could be kept open, UK jobs protected and technological expertise maintained. Such considerations – though […]
[PDF file]: […] an index to those notes. It was that which gave Steve Dorril and I the idea of indexing the notes as well as the text of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. UFOs over Watergate? At the beginning of April, John Simkin31 e-mailed dozens of JFK/Watergate writers the draft of an essay he was […]
