[…] infrastructure for sustained economic growth. Rather, Fianna Fail favours the kind of boom and bust that has at least been abandoned in Britain since the demise of Thatcher. Fianna Fail is also a byword for corruption and gangsterism. In the run up to the election, a perverse form of spin doctoring has been taking […]
[…] – a complete court transcript of the ex parte PII hearing. As soon as McGrath read this transcript he perceived that back in the days of Margaret Thatcher, his political opponents had been studying his income tax returns. The transcript showed how prosecutor Shorrock explained D909 to the judge: ‘It is old. It has […]
[PDF file]: […] section for the first time in years and it struck me as rather interesting that the last prime minister who had tried to challenge the City was Thatcher, and she lost. Thatcher versus the City of London Robin Ramsay The older I get the more I am struck by the economic illiteracy of our […]
[…] as Robin Ramsan. Duncan Campbell is mentioned twice, en passant, but is missed by Bloom’s indexer. The book is in two distinct sections: the 1974-1979 period, before Thatcher took office, and her period at No. 10. The 1974-79 period is the most interesting to me and about which I know most, and it is […]
[…] – almost all low level and localised – ran at a high level, climaxing with Arthur Scargill and the 1984-1985 NUM strike, the defeat of which allowed Thatcher to pursue deliberate de-industrialisation. Following this the figures for days lost through industrial stoppages declined to almost nothing. Adopting Donovan would have avoided much of this […]
[…] describes her political career to 1979 in great detail and provides enough personal information to understand how she acquired that rigid, humourless, repressed, character. But where Mrs Thatcher is concerned, an orthodox biography doesn’t make it. None of the paramilitary and psy-ops events of the 1974-79 period which led to her 1979 election victory […]
[…] prices are too high to compete abroad. We are now into the third year of the current period of living with a pound valued too highly. Like Thatcher and her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, in 1979-81, Labour has no exchange rate policy. Indeed, Gordon Brown warns of the perils of having one. […]
[…] the ‘quintessential figure of masculinity’ has a considerable pedigree, but it does seem as if the SAS have successfully established themselves as the ‘soldier heroes’ of the Thatcher years and beyond.(1) What I shall attempt here is an examination of this myth of the SAS as it is elaborated in Peter de la Billiere’s […]
Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like […]
[…] oppressive anti-terror and crime and disorder laws and politically correct legislation such as the Race Relations Amendment (2001) Act. Blair has done to the Labour Party what Thatcher did to the Conservatives, hollowed it out by throwing away all its traditional values. We are now left with a political system in which the only […]
