[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]
[PDF file]: […] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]
[PDF file]: […] on Fascism, which study the movement as a whole, Griffiths’ book concentrates on individuals, and how particular British Fascists or fellow-travellers reacted to the war with Germany, surveillance by the state, and the threat of internment. In his conclusion, Griffiths states that the responses to the changed situation after the declaration of war were […]
[PDF file]: […] is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this […]
[PDF file]: […] taxi. I expect that the North Koreans train their own spies in the use of multiple modes of public transport as an established tactic in mobile counter- surveillance trade-craft. What conclusion might they have come to on learning that it seems like Mr Gratton had used this exact same tactic? Mr Gratton is a […]
[PDF file]: […] crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, involving the National Criminal […]
[PDF file]: […] condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (Oxford: OUP, 2017) . 1 have resisted a more full-blooded purge. Many Labour MPs would have opposed it. And a British McCarthyism […]
[PDF file]: […] and The Move and won.2 1 During the period between the appearance of the postcard and the subsequent legal denouement, Secunda and The Move found themselves under surveillance by the state (presumably Special Branch) who followed them on tour around the UK as they promoted ‘Flowers in the Rain’. Wilson’s lack of humour arose […]
[PDF file]: […] that the British state tried (and failed) 47 to convict and imprison him. An article on The Intercept listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler 44 Who are […]
