The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article ‘The special relationship that squandered a noble cause’ (27 May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by […]
[…] Tory was able to become party leader and moreover transform Labour into a centre right party, into another, indeed, into the main British conservative party. The ‘ New’ in New Labour really meant, as one Blairite eloquently put it, ‘Not’ Labour; and this is certainly how it has turned out. Under Blair, New Labour […]
[…] prospective reviewers didn’t get the point, with review copies came a press release from the publisher, which, after announcing that ‘because of the advent of the tough new Official Secrets Act….. spy-expert Chapman Pincher has been driven to disguise his disclosures about the world of secrets in the form of fiction’, helpfully listed the […]
[…] side that made the other side blink. The Soviet denials were utterly unconvincing, but so were the U. S. claims that it had known nothing in ‘ real time’ of the aircraft’s disastrous deviation from its flight path and so was unable to warn it. In January of 1984, with the public finger pointing […]
[…] letters to Diana from Prince Philip. A package of these was claimed to exist by Paul Burrell and this was apparently independently confirmed by a police officer’s notes. However: ‘The MPS does not have any such letters. Specific enquiries have been made with the Exhibits Officer involved in the Paul Burrell trial. No letters […]
[…] common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an ‘act of conscience’ that helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam […]
[…] I haven’t read the offending book or heard him speak on his tour; or watched his video – is recycling a mish-mash of the American Right’s Illuminati-Trilateralism- New World Order nonsense.(1) The publicity for his ‘Robots Rebellion tour, and beyond’ speaking tour announces: ‘….humanity is being subjected to a gigantic contrick with fantastic human […]
Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate […]
[…] of the plotting against Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of the 1970s was the fact that it took place while the social democrat governments of Australia, New Zealand and West Germany — and possibly Canada — were also being subjected to destabilisation campaigns, with the some of the same characters playing a role […]
[…] thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK ( New York: Random House, 1993, p. ix): ‘More than two thousand books have been written about the assassination of President John Kennedy.’ Posner gives no source for […]
