Speaking of, today my dad threw me a wiki article about Clockwork Orange. Not the movie, the bri’ish smear campaign against politicians in 1974-75

As Peter Wright confirmed in his book Spycatcher, Wilson was the victim of a protracted, illegal campaign of destabilisation by a rogue element in the security services. Prompted by CIA fears that Wilson was a Soviet agent - put in place after the KGB had, the spooks believed, poisoned Hugh Gaitskell, the previous Labour leader - these MI5 men burgled the homes of the prime minister’s aides, bugged their phones and spread black, anti-Wilson propaganda throughout the media. - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/comment.labour1