Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw’s briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Re newal, new series, number 8, £3.00 ‘Jack Straw’s briefing’ is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US ‘star wars’ missile defence system. Coates’ title comes from current US […]
[…] that really was unbelievable and incredible. Those ‘senior ministers’ certainly did not know what was going on in the outside world because there was noting at all new in the claim that British Intelligence could monitor Communist votes in British general elections. The British Communist newspaper The Morning Star had repeatedly mentioned this very […]
Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding Andre Deutsch, London, 1999 £17.99 At one level this whole Shayler affair is quite odd. For Shayler is the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat – someone who can use the word ‘modern’ without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler’s complaints about MI5 can be seen […]
[…] NL Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the NL Wijffels, Herman H.F. Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Nederland P Balsemao, Francisco Pinto Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister P Borges, Antonio Dean, INSEAD P Galvao Teles, Jose M. Lawyer, Member of the Social Party, Member of […]
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping […]
[…] at the end of the War. What is really quite astonishing is that Skidelsky’s travesty has remained the standard biography of Mosley until now. Stephen Dorril’s hefty new study, Blackshirt, supersedes it in every way. Indeed, Dorril actually writes of how when he read Skidelsky’s biography back in the 1970s, he had been ‘deeply […]
[…] the response of the British left media to my pamphlet, The Clandestine Caucus. I sent review copies to every British left journal I could trace (except the New Statesman; why waste the stamp?) and to date the only one to review it has been the journal of the Socialist Party – and their reviewer […]
[…] Technology, December 7 1987. The alternative explanation, that all over the world groups of nutters are spontaneously making up the same spurious allegations, is no longer credible. New sourcesAnother little group interested in this field is Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group of American Mensa. They produce a newsletter, Resonance, edited by Judy Wall at PO […]
[…] were trying to educate themselves about the role played by the intelligence and security services in our democracy. In 1985/86 I was corresponding with my equivalents in New Zealand and getting material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about […]
