[…] FT writer for 30 years, resigned in 1975 at paper’s refusal to run a number of his ‘Lombard’ columns. These rejected columns, including a number on the Bilderberg group, back in the days when the group really was secret, were subsequently self-published by Tether as The Banned Articles of C. Gordon Tether.(ISBN 0 905821 […]
[…] policy 4 years later.(4) (Did Blair ever think of visiting the EU in this way? Or taking advice if he did?) In April 1993 he attended the Bilderberg Group meeting in Athens. Throughout 1993 and early 1994 Blair was a member of a group that sought to make further changes to the Labour Party […]
[…] time: nothing. Which means the Republicans can steal the next one. Change of mind? Colin Challen MP reports that the index of Bill Clinton’s autobiography lists ‘ Bilderberg conference’ at p. 376, where it does not appear; nor on adjoining pages; nor on 276, 476, 576 or 876. Ware’s world In the wake of […]
[…] fit to pull. Not having looked at it for about a decade, I thought it would be interesting to see the items, other than the two about Bilderberg cited by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain’s membership of the then EEC […]
[…] fortune.(3) Grant-seekers must apply to a panel of high-powered Conservatives. Trustees listed for 1994 include Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary under Mrs Thatcher and currently Chair of the Bilderberg organisation; Lord Gowrie, former arts minister and chair of the Arts Council; and John Kemp-Wallace, former chair of the Stock Exchange. The income generated by Dulverton’s […]
Kevin Coogan is the author of the study of the American fascist Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day, reviewed in Lobster 39. He sent me an essay primarily about the American far-right group the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within … Read more
[…] Lobster is one – the institutions of American political power are in Healey’s own account of his life, The Time of My Life: the Ford Foundation, the Bilderberg conferences and the Congress for Cultural Freedom are in Healey but not in Pearce. Sam Berger, the US labour attaché in London is described as such […]
[…] Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, and had been endorsed in the New York Times by […]
Many thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions to Shayler case and human rights David Shayler went on trial at the Old Bailey in October/ November 2002 for disclosing information and documents relating to security and intelligence, under s1(1) and 4(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989. During the trial he was […]
[…] poll tax riots of 1990 were part of an international ‘liberal conspiracy’ against Thatcher, and that the decision to foment civil unrest had been taken at the Bilderberg Group meeting the previous year. Notes The ‘New Right’ and those around Keith Joseph and Thatcher worked hard to portray the Conservative Party before them as […]
