[PDF file]: […] (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at […]
[…] (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at […]
[PDF file]: […] and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/ Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially ‘fair’ but […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the Conservative Party, the Anglican Church, the public schools and the ancient universities. Its power and influence continued to thrive in the late twentieth century and the first […]
[PDF file]: […] early Cold War. In effect that alliance, exemplified most clearly in the relationship between James Angleton and Jay Lovestone, moved out of the Government and into the conservative movement. Questions of 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra […]
[…] early Cold War. In effect that alliance, exemplified most clearly in the relationship between James Angleton and Jay Lovestone, moved out of the Government and into the conservative movement. Questions of intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra 9 See . to […]
[PDF file]: […] and beer in the fridge. Labour’s return to office in 1964 (narrowly) and, more convincingly, after a second election in 1966, saw many continuities with the post-1960 Conservative administrations but also some important differences: ‘Macmillan’s version of social democracy notwithstanding, the Conservative Party and its allies retained both their connections to the City and […]
[PDF file]: […] during their sojourn in London in 1907. Finkelstein D anny Finkelstein, whose personal political journey has taken him from the Labour Party via the SDP to the Conservative Party, made the following (fairly obvious) statement in The Times on 12 June: ‘….Britain wants a US level of taxation with European levels of spending and […]
[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
[…] Hillsborough was the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ — when hundreds of officers clashed with protesters during the 1984 miners’ strike. At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]
