[PDF file]: […] the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next s tory to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin […]
[PDF file]: […] we were setting ourselves an agenda that would preoccupy us for the foreseeable future, and (b) that this agenda was nothing less than recent British political his tory. This issue contains some of that post-11 research: updates, fragments, bits we left out of No. 11, plus a large chunk of material which I was […]
[PDF file]: […] size and weight in the field of applied economics, have not helped. The combination of their lobbying activities with evident disagreements concerning the EU question in the Tory Party has prevented the government from coming up with an approach to the Brexit bill, the position of EU migrants in the UK and the Irish […]
[PDF file]: […] midday, the prime ministerial motorcade pulled into the car park, Range Rovers with blue sirens, and Johnson leapt out onto the campaign trail. With Jill Mortimer, the Tory candidate, he paced up the seafront in his trademark blue suit – sans coat, despite the weather. He was mobbed. Soon, the traffic piled up as […]
[PDF file]: […] the executive summary.2 The italicised bits are my comments. 1 2 The report’s executive summary is at . ‘The IMF’s surveillance of the euro area financial regula tory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks in some countries.’ ‘In May 2010, […]
[PDF file]: […] for whom the very idea of the truth means nothing. The Assault on Truth is certainly a compelling read but in some respects it is an unsatisfac tory book. It feels too much like a work in progress. The book has unresolved contradictions – presumably because Oborne has not really sorted out his politics […]
[PDF file]: […] Booth If Sir Keir Starmer ever chooses to confront Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions he could do worse than draw upon these diary entries of the Tory leader’s former deputy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Sir Alan Duncan’s near-daily record has presented the ‘forensic’ Leader of the Opposition with an arsenal […]
[PDF file]: […] if….. In ‘The future’s not ours to see,’, his review of Atkinson and Elliot’s Going South, in Lobster 65,1 Simon Matthews offered a kind of alternative his tory of British history in the 1970s and 80s, in which Mrs Thatcher did not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let […]
[PDF file]: […] – it is incontestable. But Bower identifies other issues: Blair’s lack of policy leadership, his absence of a historical perspective (especially in the context of Labour his tory) and his ‘dithering’. Let’s look at the historical perspective, since I think it contains one of the dead weights which crush Labour politicians and prevent them […]
[PDF file]: […] claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster and 1979 is their Year Zero. There is a curious symmetry here: at the end of the […]
