[…] House of Commons. They were Anglophiles and they were very upset at the way their agency was going to interfere in the referendum campaign. They said a new head of station was going to be appointed who was not a normal CIA man, he was well known in the federalist movement and they were […]
[…] rubbished and his reputation smeared by the British press.’ (Hansard, 17 December, 1993, column 1466) The Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Sir John Wheeler, replied, adding new disinformation. ‘The Hon. Gentleman referred to the allegations of a Mr Fred Holroyd. Her Majesty’s Government had 48 hours notice, not a week, of Mr Holroyd’s […]
[…] Thomas says three of the shots came from above and thus could not have been fired by members of the Parachute Regiment, who were on the ground. Notes This speculation was bolstered by the appearance of a story in the Mail on Sunday, 24 October 1999 (‘Tainted evidence threatens Lockerbie trial’ by James Grylls […]
[…] in mind the following possible charges: an offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new options being granted to Rowland. A conspiracy to defraud in relation to Nyaschere and the Shamrock mine of which the essence was personal enrichment of the […]
[…] war? It’s all the fault of the unions. The British economy’s structural bias towards overseas investment? Not a word. Impact of the City on Tory economic policy? Not a word. It doesn’t matter. This has some great anecdotes, some genuinely new information, and some wonderful, unwitting self-revelation by a spokesperson for the Thatcherite myth. RR
[…] him to smear Labour, Liberal and Tory politicians in Clockwork Orange Two. Ware can get away with this disgraceful distortion only by completely ignoring the Wallace handwritten notes – based on MI5 information – which, as he knows, were confirmed forensically as being written in or around 1974. Pooh-poohing Wallace’s allegations, Ware can’t even […]
The Westminster Whistleblowers: Shirley Porter, homes for votes and twenty years of scandal in Britain’s rottenest borough Paul Dimoldenberg London: Politicos, 2006, £12.99, p/b The author was a Labour councillor in Westminster during Porter’s ‘reign of terror’ and was instrumental in eventually bringing her down. With an insider’s view he has written an […]
[…] Times journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, for 17 years The Times’ Home Affairs correspondent when it still was the voice of the ‘British establishment’. Evans k new MI5 people and got material from them. He also got material from IRD (unidentified by Evans) but these IRD briefings were ‘too right-wing’ to be used. […]
[…] ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. It’s got no index, and no sources notes; all too frequently, where Moore does cite another source, a newspaper, for example, he gives no date. Even if it had been adequately documented, this would […]
[…] I can remember over the next two years being driven about southern England by my girl-friend in her green Mini looking for anything suspicious. We soon k new what the tell-tale signs were: the radio masts, air grilles and vents, cast concrete block houses and so on. But we never did find the Queen’s […]
