[…] of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant UK business figures’ wanted the expected return to office of Harold Wilson stopped and steps taken to reduce the power of UK trade unions. It is unclear if anything flowed from this discussion. In any event Wilson took […]
[…] to the preeminent position of the BBC, at a time when the BBC was often accused of left-wing bias. The coup plot came to nothing when the Wilson government’s own scientific advisor, Sir Solly Zuckerman, was invited to join the group and managed to persuade a non-too-bright Lord Mountbatten that to participate in such […]
[…] government as Meta Ramsay is now thought to provide the Blair administration. Having later to settle for a knighthood, left Ayer with a life-long detestation of Harold Wilson. This whole Camden Town social group felt, though they could not rationally argue the case, that Wilson was somehow illegitimate as Prime Minister, even though he […]
[…] Record Office. Hennessy was apparently astonished to see documentation of the conflict between the then Governor of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cromer wanted – guess what? – cuts in public expenditure and higher interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, ‘It’s already in our program, Lord Cromer,’ […]
[…] the media with Lobster 11. (April 1986) Embargoed until 3pm, April 30th Something very strange happened in British politics almost a decade ago. A Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down […]
[…] if the Times gets these losses back from some secret department of HMG. (And if it doesn’t, it is time they got better libel lawyers….) Maggie v Wilson One of the outstanding unresolved issues in the so-called ‘Wilson plots’ of the mid-1970s is the question of Margaret Thatcher’s role after she became Leader of […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the […]
[…] has been telling anyone who would listen that she was a student member of a subversive pro-Soviet group in Oxford University, lead by the young don Harold Wilson. The fact that during the period she describes Wilson wasn’t at Oxford, matters not a jot. (Little’s fantasies are referred to by Chapman Pincher, see Inside […]
[…] 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were ……….well, anything from ideologically unreliable to Soviet agents. In the Callaghan extract the […]
[…] Joe Joe Haines’ 2003 Glimmers of Twilight (London: Politicos, 2003) got a fair bit of attention when it appeared, most of the comments noting either former Harold Wilson press officer Haines’ allegation that Marcia Falkender claimed to have had an affair with Wilson in the 1950s, or the claim (supported by Bernard Donoughue in […]
