[…] they began launching raids on Yugoslavia. ASIO was almost a parody of the right-wing security/intelligence outfit in bed with the right. The author’s account also shows a Labour Party dimly aware of all this, making the occasional half-hearted stab at reining in ASIO, which the agency and its conservative allies easily outflanked or overturned. […]
[…] passed to PIRA and own bank account David O’Connell/Marie Maguire affair Jeremy Thorpe: misuse of party funds Funds from East Germany to finance Wilson’s campaign McGrath/Paisley/McKeague Are Labour deliberately damaging the economy to assist USSR plot against West? Psychoanalysis: Wilson, Benn, O’Connell, Paisley Treasury study shows economy on verge of collapse Jo Richardson, Joan […]
[…] the book is not terribly interesting. Part of it is Mayhew’s memories of his struggle with the CP front groups – the friendship societies – in the 1950s, and the rest is fragmented memories of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and his eventual defection to the Liberal Party and thence into the SDP.
[…] with most Africans, could shoot straight, or seemed able to learn.’) More interesting, he was a member of an SAS team dispatched to Thailand by Harold Wilson’s Labour government to train Thai special forces. This, it was hoped by the regiment, was the beginning of a more substantial commitment that would end with British […]
[…] in their opening sentence, “It is surprising that relatively little work has been done on the role of capital in British politics”. ‘Pressure Groups: Right Thinking People’ Labour Research Feb. 1984 Profiles of, personnel involved in, financial contributions to: Adam Smith Institute, Aims of Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, […]
[…] blowing up a draft office or a bank seemed sexy and exciting at the time – the group did not connect with the working class or organised labour, let alone with straight America, grazing in the malls. The author tries at the end to show that, despite their complete failure, the WU were important […]
[…] the broadcasting regulations – yet another falsehood.’ I have no sympathy for Robin Cook who has turned out to be at least as useless as any other Labour Minister, but readers of this column may remember that in issue 36 I described how Pilger had sent me a long letter and demanded I publish […]
[…] Huey Long. Huey Long? The quasi-socialist Huey Long, not the friend-of-organised-crime Huey Long. The current Democratic Party’s timidity drives Palast nuts in the same way that the Labour Party used to drive people like me nuts, watching them afraid to make obvious points for fear of………who knows what. But the Democrats are all he’s […]
[…] a fourth is another UDA man, James Mcmichael, who came across from Northern Ireland earlier this year to tell the Ron Horn saga to Merlyn Rees, former Labour Home Secretary and Northern Irish Secretary. While it isn’t difficult to see why a British spook would want to discredit Wallace, the role of these UDA […]
[…] Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer…Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public […]
