[…] state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti- Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, me paranoid?’ reference: ‘You are probably […]
[PDF file]: […] a misnomer, as he identifies two reinventions. The first is the embrace of a form of European social democracy by Harold Macmillan and his successors, notably Harold Wilson, from 1960 onwards. The second is the plotting of a new course from 1979 onwards, away from economic planning, intervention and – critically – support for […]
[PDF file]: […] Republican and Democratic parties during the US mid-term elections, campaigning for which ran from May to the close of polls on 5th November 1918.1 US President Woodrow Wilson issued his suggestions about the type of peace he regarded as desirable in January 1918. These envisaged a post-war world in which much emphasis was placed […]
[PDF file]: […] state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti- Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, me paranoid?’ reference: ‘You are probably […]
[PDF file]: […] compared with 23% today. Between 1947 and 1955 National Debt was stable at £25bn-£26bn (twice GDP). The amount of National Debt fell below annual GDP during the Wilson period (1964-1970) and has been so ever since. Debt is not, in itself, a problem for the UK: the problems today are caused by borrowing to […]
[PDF file]: […] advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were partly responsible. That is […]
[PDF file]: […] lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. […]
[PDF file]: […] relationship with the US and, after a period of engagement, a gradual step by step separation from Europe. It didn’t always look like this, of course. Macmillan, Wilson and Heath all came to the view that the UK had to join the Common Market. Delays in participating with Europe between 1946 and 1960, when […]
[PDF file]: […] know that the Texas Congressman’s success in obtaining enormous finance and sophisticated weaponry for the Mujahdineen was strongly promoted by the Israeli lobby in Washington to which Wilson was very close.41 Mujahdineen training by the US, UK and Israel as part of well-funded Operation Cyclone is a matter of record. One assumes that Blunkett, […]
[PDF file]: […] that elements within the US state wanted to use the crisis to get rid of the Labour Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 6 For Whittome see Denis Healey, The Time of My Life, (London: Michael Joseph, 1989) p. 431. […]
