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A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars
[PDF file]: […] we workers lived in a reality of which she appeared to have no understanding.’ Enoch Powell and Michael Foot ‘could hold the Commons spellbound with their ora tory, but if you read the speeches in Hansard the next day, Powell’s was the one with more substance’. (Having once covered a Foot speech I returned […]
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] and a beard and this lead to them being referred to as “hairies”. Over time, subjects of interest became known as “wearies”. This was a slightly deroga tory colloquial term for individuals that were viewed as hard work and tiresome. These titles which now seem archaic and inappropriate remained in use by the unit […]
The End of Progress: How modern economics has failed us by Graeme Maxton
[PDF file]: […] meeting of the International Monetary Fund. A safe distance from home, he made a speech that rather let the cat out of the bag in terms of Tory labourmarket policy. Many of the jobs of tomorrow, Lawson said, would not be ‘high tech’. They may not even be ‘low tech’. Instead, they would be […]
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland
[PDF file]: […] movement. Jonathan Dimbleby is the present head of the Soil Association and he made his feelings about Jenks very clear in his foreword to Philip Conford’s his tory of the organic movement,3 where he described the beliefs that Jenks had as ‘foolish and foetid’ and Jenks himself as one of a number of ‘fatuous […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]