[…] report,(1) tracked her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. […]
[…] Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department […]
[…] the oddest programmes he has ever seen. The single most striking thing about McPhilemy’s story is his neglect of much of the context in which this alleged conspiracy was said to be taking place. In 1987 Brian Nelson, working for the British Army, had returned to Northern Ireland, rejoined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), […]
[…] in Chile, was expelled to the United States for questioning about the Letelier assassination. He subsequently turned state’s evidence and testified about his key role in the conspiracy. Townley’s significance is that he was one of DINA’s most important agents and many of the DINA operations described in Labyrinth are written from his point […]
[…] very much on an old boy basis’ (a finding which prompted efforts to open up the Service to a more meritocratic ethos thereafter). As far as the conspiracy was concerned Hunt admitted ‘There is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few malcontents in MI5, a lot of them right wing, […]
[…] railways. Nice example of prudence, eh, Gordon? Where would we be without consultants? I’ve always liked NASA’s definition of a consultant/ expert: ‘An ordinary guy a long way from home.’ A good study of the period from the end of the war to privatisation is David Henshaw’s The Great Railway Conspiracy (Hawes: Leading Edge, 1991).
[…] fatally flawed. The judgement compares this case with another recent animal rights-related case heard by the Court of Appeal in November 1997, where there was an alleged conspiracy to commit offences of criminal damage. (R v Roberts and Others, concerning protests at Shoreham over live calve exports). The Court considered the procedure in this […]
[…] new applicants for the Labour Party Parliamentary Panel. This was an extremely significant grouping exercising great power in contemporary Britain. But is this organised? Is it a conspiracy? The firm way in which some GMB-endorsed candidates have slotted into various seats in the North East Hilary Armstrong, Nick Brown, Doug Henderson, Kevan Jones […]
[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]
[…] this before it was posted?’ *new* Thought for the day Someone called Tom (no surname) emailed me wondering about the current validity of Anthony Summers’ distinction between conspiracy theories and theories about conspiracies. Tom wonders if it wouldn’t make more sense to describe contemporary phenomena – such as QAnon – as conspiracy ideologies. There […]
