Further proof that Harold Wilson was right about MI5 treason

[Jan Klimkowski]

Prof Andrew is more than "well-connected".

I also note the ongoing attempt to describe known, extant, plots as "conspiracy theories" believed by those with psychological or medical disorders:

Prof Andrew believes Wilson’s apparent obsession was evidence of his ‘mental and physical decline’. The Prime Minister was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

Wilson hired private security firms to sweep his office for listening devices and was said to have pointed out electric light fittings to Downing Street visitors, indicating that they might be bugged.

According to Prof Andrew: ‘Wilson appears rarely to have said anything in the lavatory without first turning on all the taps and gesturing at imaginary bugs in the ceiling.’ He also says Wilson suspected a hole in the wall of the Cabinet Room, behind a portrait of William Gladstone contained a listening device.

If a Prime Minister believes members of his own security services and the British royal family are conspiring against him, then Prof Andrew is there to reassure the public that the PM was in "mental and physical decline".

The message is clear: you needn't worry about treachery, or the claims of "unsound" intelligence officers like Wallace or Holroyd about assassination squads, right-wing military coups and the like. It was all a minor blip. Oh - and here's some juicy gossip about a Tory peer and a gangster's sexual cavortings to distract you.