En route to their crushing general election vic tory in 2001 the Prime Minister and his colleagues found time for a private working breakfast with some of the big movers and shakers in UK corporate capitalism – Glaxo Smith Kline, HSBC, Unilever, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Centrica and many others – ‘to reduce […]
Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher’s first election vic tory and the onset of the demented world as we know it in this country. No doubt books and TV programmes are being prepared. The most striking account of the first part of the Thatcher events is John Hoskyn’s Just In […]
[…] The fact that during the period she describes Wilson wasn’t at Oxford, matters not a jot. (Little’s fantasies are referred to by Chapman Pincher, see Inside S tory p. 29, and have appeared a number of times in Kenneth de Courcy’s Special Office Brief). The now defunct Foreign Affairs Publishing Company of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. […]
[…] it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole s tory. Hardly anything about Young’s political activities in the late sixties and seventies is included. Even with those omissions this is an interesting document. We tried to […]
[…] who had a girlfriend who was also Secretary of the Beaconsfield Constituency Labour Party and Blair finally got selected as a Labour bye-election candidate in a solid Tory seat, thus fleshing out his otherwise thin CV, meeting some important people (Foot, Healey etc) and making a small number of media appearances. The hunt now […]
[…] this at all. At 900 pages, it is a massive and impressive work, one which attempts an overview of the last fifty years of MI6’s operational his tory. Perforce, the bulk of it is concerned with the Cold War, and then mainly in Europe. This isn’t overly eurocentric on Dorril’s part: his preface states […]
[…] SIS seeking credit from the former satellites for taking on the Evil Empire?) White, the SIS reformer, was opposed by certain officers in Broadway, supported outside by Tory MPs like Julian Amery.(2) At pp. 169 and 170 we get an account of these ‘robber barons’, the senior officers, section heads, portrayed as seedy, complacent, […]
[…] Hill, were in court to hear the verdict. Mr Hill had denied writing the article in question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, s tory opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one […]
[…] of the UCA smear published in Lobster 14. We sent out 50 copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the s tory and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regula tory 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 […]
