Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have … Read more
[…] of his insight shortly after election day. Who does Mr Morris think is to blame for the discrepancies in exit polling? Why, the usual monolithic conspiracy of liberal, leftie, terrorist-loving, media pantywaists, of course. Mr Morris’s extravagant claims are worth quoting at some length. ‘Exit polls,’ he (rightly) remarked, ‘are almost never wrong. They […]
[…] Quite what Stuart’s ‘theory’ is, however, is less than clear. He writes variously of ‘International Finance-power capitalism”, “One World Monopolists”, “a World Federalist State”, the (US) “Eastern Liberal Establishment” the “Fabian oligarchy and the CFR boys of the perpetual hidden government”, and – best of all – “super-rich, capitalist, monopolist Fabian, gradualist Marxist collectivists, […]
[…] time and money on funding Britons Publishing with Arnold Leese. Others who followed him remained politically active. Colonel Kerr (as Lord Teviot) organised the merger of the Liberal National Party with the Conservatives in 1947. Major Edmondson was Chairman of the Carlton Club until 1956. Lt. Commander Agnew remained MP for South Worcs until […]
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company London, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000 £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
[…] ‘One of them is that his brother is president.’(43) Conclusions? What is one to make of all of this? One could easily become a member of the liberal ‘elite’, so memorably described in the words of one of Dick Cheney’s Vice Presidential predecessors, Spiro Agnew: ‘….the raised-eyebrow cynics, the anti-intellectual intellectuals, the pampered egotists […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most […]
[…] authored by the pseudonymous ‘James Hepburn’ and reputed to be the product of French intelligence. The Nation has a long history of slagging off conspiracy theorists: its liberal slant is that political assassinations only occur abroad, never at home – unless, as with Letelier, they are of foreigners, by foreigners. So I got the […]
[…] With Milner in South Africa (1936), vol. 8 of the Cambridge history of the British Empire (1929-59), 613-40, 34-8 J. Conway, The Round Table: a study in liberal imperialism, PhD diss., Harvard University, 1951 J. R. M. Butler, Lord Lothian (London: Macmillan, 1960) L. M. Thompson, The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910 (New York: […]
[…] the succession as a hard liner, boosted by that year’s Orange victory at Drumcree, which he and Paisley had celebrated hand in hand. He defeated the ‘ liberal’ candidate, Ken Maginnis, but it seems clear that he had already decided peace on Unionist terms was possible. The problem was not to be the republicans […]
