[…] him was his second wife, Dame Ruth Railton, described by Edwards as ‘…jealous, merciless, fiercely manipulative and an inveterate liar and fantasist.’ A subsequent fantasy of the duo was a joint belief that they could solve the problems besetting Northern Ireland, at one point simultaneously courting Ian Paisley and IRA Army Council member David O’Connell.
Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings Here is another, previously unpublished section from Wallace’s 1974 jottings for the aborted operation ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Can Politicians Be Trusted? N. St. Stevas: homosexual – boyfriend of Elton John’s manager – cocaine user at parties Homosexual relationships – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van […]
[…] of workers’ control in the United Kingdom.’ It also pointed out, that ‘On Ireland the Party supports the official Sinn Fein (the Communist dominated wing of the IRA) and the Peoples’ Democracy, through which Bernadatte Devlin came to prominence, as organisations whose objectives are the establishment of a Socialist Workers’ Republic.’ All this was […]
[…] explanation for something awkward. In The Daily Telegraph of 3 April, for example, Philip Johnston wrote: ‘A covert Army unit colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to target suspected IRA terrorists for assassination, according to an official police report to be published later this month. The report by Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, […]
[…] (“hare-brained”, according to Leng), but tells us that “today, in Wallace’s mind, ‘Clockwork Orange’ has become a more sinister Mark Two which … went beyond destabilising the IRA; it was aimed at mainland Labour politicians – which just happens to dovetail with similar allegations, raised in Parliament from an entirely independent source, namely Peter […]
[…] (See, for example, Sunday Times 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in […]
[…] especially its clandestine forces, are almost completely missing from Bruce’s account. How important are the spooks in this story? How can we tell? In the end the IRA is still there — so they are not all powerful. Finer discrimination than that? In 1987 James Miller, sometime UDA ‘intelligence officer’, told Barry Penrose that […]
[…] of firearms with intent to endanger life. Daly lived in Bristol at Southmead from 1969 to 1989. Before this he lived in Highbury Villas, Kingsdown, with an IRA leader known as Jim Flyn. He admitted to having been an informer in Bristol since the mid-seventies – which some of us had guessed – and […]
[…] well on the way to alienating the Catholic working class in Belfast and Derry. The conduct of the troops was effectively recruiting young Catholics into the Provisional IRA, something since acknowledged by military sources. A good case can be made that, by treating the events of 1970-71 as the first stage of a revolutionary […]
[…] that ‘the dissent generated by Catholic and Protestant differences is only a small factor’, reveals that ‘Sinn Fein does not know or govern the actions of the IRA’ and describes the Troops Out Movement as representative of the opinions of ‘English civilians’ (source: a poll carried out by the Troops Out Movement). More trivially, […]
