[…] minister Ole Bjorn Kraft (publisher of Denmark’s top daily newspaper); and from England came Denis Healey and Hugh Gaitskell from the Labour Party, Robert Boothby from the Conservative Party, Sir Oliver Franks from the British state, and Sir Colin Gubbins, who had headed the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. On the American […]
[…] from Michael Moore overload? Then you might want to take a look at Celsius 41.11, ‘…the truth behind the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11…’. Produced by a Washington-based conservative group, Citizens United, it probably won’t be coming to a cinema near you but can be viewed at . (The title, incidentally, refers to the temperature […]
[…] no Soviet grand plan for the invasion of Britain and world domination; and nothing in Mitrokhin’s packet of revelations proves that there was. Even if the ultra- conservative Soviet bureaucracy had wanted to conquer the world, the creaking and sclerotic Soviet system was hardly up to it. The Cold War was never as simple […]
[…] the food producers. At one point Nott describes himself as ‘a rebel by nature’. Let’s see: from public school to Cambridge University, into the City and the Conservative Party, back to the City and thence, after a brief, eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman – that […]
[…] him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the nature of the periodical, believing it merely to be some local Conservative newsletter. I know Leigh and when I first read this story in Searchlight I was amazed. There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, […]
[…] do they have to do to get the sack?) NB on this paragraph see the correction in Lobster 26. Kevin Taylor — Manchester businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief […]
[…] Steve, and, in publishing it, we breached the Official Secrets Act in a big way. But apart from being denounced in the House of Commons by a Conservative MP – who was among those listed – nothing happened. Evidently the British state had learned the lesson that prosecution merely makes those prosecuted the subject […]
[…] We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating […]
On April 22, 1993 both BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) … Read more
[…] pro-nuclear, pro-EU and pro-destroying the public sector. The only significant difference is that the Cameroons are linked to a different cluster of corporate sponsors. The NuLab and Conservative parties’ use of PR is discussed but that isn’t the meat of those chapters. This is the best introduction to real power politics in this society […]
