[…] House of Commons in June 1999, joined the board of Harrods and a number of other Al Fayed companies as a non-executive director.(6) He has used his new position to reiterate the questions he asked last year in the House of Commons (questions that still remain unanswered) and to ask for a Parliamentary inquiry […]
[…] ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island. There were no survivors. Immediately afterwards many […]
One of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the […]
I sent the following by e-mail to a number of people: ‘Thus Martin Jacques in the New Statesman: ‘For the next 30 years, neoliberalism – the belief in the market rather then the state, the individual rather than the social – exercised a hegemonic influence over British politics, with the creation of New Labour […]
[…] of the NF towards the end of 1977 was the continued presentation of themselves as a ‘respectable’ organisation. Thus on 24 September 1977 an NF delegation to New Scotland Yard, including Tyndall, Martin Webster, Andrew Fountaine and Andrew Brons, met a police contingent led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helm to discuss alleged attacks on […]
[…] was asked about membership of paramilitary organisations, he would give a knowing wink — just the sort of behaviour that might be expected from a 18 year-old new to London. Although the state has not been averse to arresting and imprisoning the odd UVF member, according to Brady he has not ever been questioned […]
[…] Ray White is the managing director of Veritas Publishing, Australia’s leading publisher/distributor of racist and anti-Semitic literature.(10) Eustace Mullins I’ve just come across in the pages of New Age Monitor (11). Mullins, it is reported, is one of the leaders of the Christian Identity Movement (whatever that is: information would be welcome), and author […]
[…] Anti-Internment League, Troops Out Movement, British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Group, Irish Political Hostages Release Committee and the Campaign for Social Justice are all listed as “Labour’s New Left in Northern Ireland” – an interesting if wholly misleading and barely intelligible description. Named in this context as “key personalities” are Paul Rose (who gets […]
[…] of the academic mode of analysis, so net tools like Wikipedia, a constantly revisable draft of ‘reality’, scrutinised by knowledgeable and disciplined peer groups, could be the new model for describing and evaluating the world of executive unaccountability as it slips through the net between paper-based evidence and the gossip of ‘unconfirmed sources’. () […]
[…] the former leader of the BUF, gave Hamm his blessing. One of Mosley’s lieutenants, Alexander Raven Thomson, organised a parallel network of book clubs, to recruit a new layer of respectable fascists. Finally, in November 1947, Mosley held a large meeting, attended by Hamm, the book clubs, and about 50 organisations all told, to […]
