[PDF file]: […] money had been spent on equipment that was in place, there would be a weaker argument for disbanding SOE and replacing it with a purely SIS–staffed version. Churchill himself may not have been a supporter of the campaign to keep SOE alive but like much of Whitehall, as soon as the eventual defeat of […]
[PDF file]: […] merchants and soldiers often acquired an astonishing knowledge of Muslim culture and Islamic learning, along with a deep understanding of the societies where they were based.’ Winston Churchill was one of that knowing assembly. As a newly elected Conservative MP, Churchill stood out against his party and most of the country by attacking the […]
[…] be helpful if he was a bit more precise. Instead, we are left with an entertaining essay rather than a guide to a possible future. * Simon Matthews’ study of Winston Churchill during the phoney war – A Study in Failure: Churchill at the Admiralty 1939-1940 – is published by Oldcastle Books in 2026. 3
[PDF file]: […] Labour Research really want there to be direct concrete ‘interests’ to explain the Tory Party’s infatuation with South Africa. And, yes, while there are some, Biggs-Davison, Knight, Churchill and Wall are not on their list. The ‘economic interest’ approach misses, marginalises, the fact that many on the Tory Right support South Africa because they […]
[PDF file]: The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence. Peter Luce The recent review of Kevin Coogan’s The Spy Who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground1 prompted me to re-read the work of another claimant to the Russian imperial succession. In 1998 Michael Gray, a former Technical College […]
[PDF file]: […] Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix- Churchill, who were MI6 agents, to be prosecuted.32 Echoes of this grubby incident have been invoked by the recent extradition (without due process) of retired British businessman […]
[PDF file]: The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism Peter Oborne London: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger When I read Peter Oborne’s The Rise of Political Lying more than fifteen years ago, I was full of admiration for its exposure of New Labour’s dishonesty. This […]
[PDF file]: […] a private lunch by John Harvey MP – the Commons’ ‘oil’ man – who was also former constituency chairman to Second World War Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. ‘To think, he knew the Great Man!’ my father would say in wonder. It is impossible to overestimate what the name ‘Churchill’ meant in those days. […]
[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person to cover. […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley. Joyce’s talks, like Luxembourg’s broadcasts in the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government […]
