We need to take a quick look at Harold Wilson’s 1976 Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours. This was known as the Lavender List allegedly because Lady Falkender had written the draft on lavender coloured paper. How [more…]
William James Owen formerly a miner and latterly a Labour MP was tried for spying for the Czechs, it’s amazing how often Czech Intelligence’s name crops up when politicians are accused of spying. Better known [more…]
So we go back to the 1960s and Tom Driberg. A notorious and flamboyant homosexual when such behaviour was likely to get you a jail sentence. Considering he was an ugly so and so I [more…]
It’s time to introduce Satan Blair. To be more precise it concerns the Lord Levy but he was acting on behalf of the great deceiver himself. Michael Abraham Levy, later Lord Levy, was the chief [more…]
Our John is one of the more interesting cases. There have been multiple accusations of trade union leaders and Labour MPs taking the Russian shilling though you have to ask whether some of them could [more…]
These days Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, known as Hugh, would be considered one of the good guys but in 1947 he committed one of the worst sins possible in those more genteel times. He [more…]
Nicholas Hugh Brown, known as Nick, born in 1950 in Kent is the object of much speculation, none of it good. He went to the University of Manchester and worked in advertising for Proctor and [more…]
A series on Labour’s bad boys has been suggested. At first sight it seemed akin to climbing Everest, there are just so many but on reflection, as one of the current phrases goes, it is [more…]
It has recently emerged that Raynor Winn (NHRN), whose trip with her husband Moth (also NHRN) along the SW Coastal Path inspired her book ‘The Salt Path’ (followed by the film of the same name [more…]
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