[…] Essentials, 2002; £3.99 Pocket Essentials are the publishers who have had the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However Nixon’s book is really […]
[…] the Whitehall trough, offered this paragraph in a piece in the Evening Standard (13 May, 1993), ‘Why Windsors aren’t tapped by Her Majesty’s secret service’: ‘The post-war Labour government was so determined to ensure that MI5 could never become a Gestapo that it proved wholly ineffective at monitoring the growth of domestic subversion, or […]
[…] to the CIA (p. 275). This is by far the most detailed account of Bilderberg’s origins and even includes a picture of the first meeting, with then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell on the very back row. Wilford thanks 8 bodies for financial assistance and 16 US libraries. The available archival bushes seem to have […]
[…] is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts to resolve the conflict. The authors show us the senior […]
[…] far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England between 1964 and 66, and the Labour government’s number one enemy in that period. Hang on a minute, I thought, and consulted the index. No entry for Cromer. Back to the text I […]
[…] turns out to be a little old lady from suburban Bexleyheath who sells the Morning Star, drinks tea from a Che Guevara mug and makes jam for Labour Party bazaars. Ironically, the octogenarian Tankie in question, Mrs Letty Norwood, is just about the only person to emerge from the whole sorry tale with any […]
[…] ways Justice Delayed is more shocking than his Eichmann biography because with that book we know what to expect. What Justice Delayed revealed was that the 1945-1951 Labour government did its best to keep Jewish Holocaust survivors out of Britain, but had no problem with allowing in Baltic veterans of the SS. While there […]
[…] the next President of the US and a future British political leader just the kind of people the Bilderbergers would want to have a look at. Labour leader John Smith was then on Bilderberg’s steering committee and brought Brown in. For Smith to play this role there had to be more to him […]
[…] have been a strictly humanitarian gesture was given a political dimension by the fact that John Major’s rapidly-deflating Conservative government had stalled repeatedly on banning landmines, whereas Labour was promising a foreign policy with ‘an ethical dimension’. Declassified US diplomatic cables record that ‘Government officials immediately scrambled to repair the public relations damage, and […]
[…] mining conglomerate, involved in the extraction and refining of molybdenum, coal (3rd largest producer in the US with a bad reputation for its open-cast mining operations and labour relations), tungsten (2nd largest producer in the US), and copper. It is a major nickel producer in the US and mines/refines lead, silver, cadmium and zinc […]
