[PDF file]: The Oyston Files Andrew Rosthorn Darwen, Lancashire: Red Sea Books, 2021, £16.99, h/b Nick Must At a macro level, this is a fairly simple s tory: Owen Oyston, a multi-millionaire supporter of the Labour Party,1 was subject to a politically motivated smear campaign that lasted nearly two decades. Andrew Rosthorn identifies the three main […]
[PDF file]: […] intelligence world are dead. Grauniadia Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts s tory, pointing out its absurd anti-Putin bias.12 I’ve said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we know of the way the American […]
[PDF file]: […] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]
[PDF file]: […] Democratic Unionist Party. This originated from the ‘Constitutional Research Council’ (CRC), which appeared to exist without a constitution and only one named individual in charge: a failed Tory candidate based in Scotland. The CRC were actually fined £6,0002 (which is less than 1.5% of the original sum) for not properly declaring this donation. The […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of lauda tory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s […]
[PDF file]: […] they wanted to help in marginal seats to oust Tories. Looking at the latest available list of donors for 2022, there are new names. For example ex- Tory donor Gareth Quarry who, according to the Guardian, said ‘The moral standards of the party have been completely trashed over many years.’ He added: ‘My wife […]
[PDF file]: […] to Iranian influence.6 Disturbing parallels exist between the falsification of an Iranian assassination plot in the US (with Texas-based private intelligence ‘think tank’ Stratfor spinning the s tory as ‘credible intelligence’ in the media) and the entrapment of Bradley Manning that previously involved the private intelligence agency Project Vigilant, based in Florida.7 Founded by […]
[PDF file]: Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 Clive Bloom Stroud: The His tory Press, 2015, £20 (h/b) Robin Ramsay I was seriously interested when I got the publisher’s flyer about this book. To my knowledge no-one has tackled this subject in its entirety; and noone has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, […]
Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 Clive Bloom Stroud: The His tory Press, 2015, £20 (h/b) I was seriously interested when I got the publisher’s flyer about this book. To my knowledge no-one has tackled this subject in its entirety; and no-one has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, the 1974-79 […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Thatcherism’ – championing big business, deregulating the financial sector, continuing privatisations and effectively handing the state over to business consultants. After 2008, Brown prepared the way for Tory Austerity and the creation of contemporary Food Bank Britain, afloat in a sea of raw sewage courtesy of the privatised water companies and their shareholders. For […]
