Search Results for: Thatcher
The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate
[PDF file]: […] was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski was in intelligence terms, and how many books have been written about the intelligence ‘war’, it is striking – not to […]
Tittle Tattle
[PDF file]: […] under its new editor Chris Blackhurst.7 Alongside Hill for several years in the company founded 6 7 by Tim (Lord) Bell, the man who helped make Margaret Thatcher, was Mattinson, Gould’s old sidekick in the ‘modernisation’ of Labour. Hill’s partner is Hilary Coffman, who previously worked for Kinnock and Michael Foot. BAP and the […]
Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor
[PDF file]: […] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]
A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election
[PDF file]: […] If Parliament or the public had been told in 1999, when Savile had over a decade left to live, future offences might have been prevented. In 1988 Thatcher Government junior health minister Edwina Currie had appointed Savile to lead a task force to tackle various problems at Broadmoor. The entertainer had cultivated Ms Currie […]
The economic crisis continues
[PDF file]: […] the economically active state (except to save bankers)? Its senior figures are too young to remember how an industrial strategy was done before the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. Institutionally the Conservative Party hasn’t believed in an industrial strategy since 1979. The John Major government in the 1990s, mainly in the shape of the Chancellor […]
Taylor Operation Chiffon
[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
[PDF file]: […] Committee. Only kidding of course. The Commons Intelligence Select Committee is really just a parliamentary spittoon into which the intelligence agencies occasionally feel obliged to gob. Under Thatcher there was the dramatic rise of private intelligence agencies run by various of her admirers, Brian Crozier and the like, that operated alongside MI5. CND was […]
And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK
[PDF file]: […] . . . I’m also anti-German. Anti-all-Europeans actually Oh yes – if I had my way I’d form my own party far more right wing than Margaret Thatcher I’d bring back National Service, the Scaffold, Reflecting on the who’s who of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, one is struck by how out of his […]
Taylor Operation Chiffon
[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]