[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti- Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year […]
[…] 1973/4 MI5 was trawling through MPs’ private lives gathering dirt. But evidence of security agency-gathered material wrecking MPs careers is thin. There are some cases in the Wilson period of MPs who wanted to become Ministers having their careers blocked by bad references from MI5. But the MP who has done the most attacking […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour […]
[…] to the South Atlantic To my knowledge since Suez in 1956 the British state has refused only twice to do what the Americans wanted. In 1965-66 Harold Wilson refused to send British troops to Vietnam, despite heavy pressure from President Johnson and threats to halt US support for sterling. Wilson refused for two reasons […]
[…] Winstanley) died in July. A long obituary in the Daily Telegraph of July 19 failed to mention Winstanley’s revelations about his knowledge of one of the anti-Harold Wilson plots of the 1960s, reported on p. 174 of the Dorril/Ramsay book Smear! Clive Derby-Lewis, briefly a South African Conservative MP, elected Honourary President of the […]
[…] intelligible. Wallace’s revelations illuminated the hysteria on the British right in the 1970s about the threat from the left and the belief of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson that there was a disinformation campaign against him and his government. He was right: the hysteria and the campaign were largely the work of serving or […]
[…] War allegations also lay behind the highly publicised claims of the former officer Peter Wright that the Service had plotted to undermine the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A vigorous internal enquiry failed to produce any evidence to substantiate these claims, and Wright himself subsequently admitted that they were false.’ This is a nice […]
[…] by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that he had made up the Wilson Plot. By then, though, it was too late because the authorities had naïvely tried to ban the book rather than hold an independent inquiry, which would […]
[…] hazy. The outrage on the Tory benches at Livingstone’s maiden speech was focused on his references to the role of the late Airey Neave in the so-called Wilson plots of mid-1970s, as told to Ken by Colin Wallace. Wallace had been contacted by Neave in 1976 after Wallace had been bounced out of Northern […]
[…] the Simonstown Agreement. Arms exports were good for the balance of payments and domestic employment; and guaranteed the security of the sea lanes around the Cape. The Wilson governments of 1964-70 had inherited the agreement from the Conservatives but had never been happy about it and by the time Labour left office exports of […]
