Since Sir Harold Wilson resigned from his position as Prime Minister in 1976, worrying rumours emerged surrounding MI5’s hostility towards his Labour government. By 1987, ex-security officer Peter Wright had publicly claimed that British intelligence plotted a coup d’état to…
You may have noticed recently that the papers and the pundits have been saying that Britain is heading back to the seventies. Although many today possess a mythologised view of the 1970s – a decade of political division and social…
It’s fascinating how quickly so much can change in politics. Two years ago, Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to their best general election result since Margaret Thatcher’s landslide in 1987 and left a Labour opposition in tatters with just 202…