[…] their first instinct was to resume the practice. And indeed sales did recommence – but not on a very grand scale. The anti-climax (from the perspective of Tory imperialists such as Julian Amery) has been ascribed by recent historians to an unwillingness to upset the Commonwealth, especially the newly independent African states. Heath certainly […]
[…] and now a freelance writer whose work appears widely. The purpose of the 1988 gathering – as of all the BAP functions — was summed up by Tory MP David Willetts, previously director of studies at the Centre for Policy Studies founded by Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph in 1974. Willetts said: ‘The […]
[…] appendix – containing five essays by occasional Lobster contributors Challen and Hughes. The Challen essays bring together a good deal of what is known about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians […]
[…] Thatcher’s rise was managed by Airey Neave, whose ‘intelligence connections’ even she acknowledges in the first volume of her memoirs; and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read […]
En route to their crushing general election vic tory in 2001 the Prime Minister and his colleagues found time for a private working breakfast with some of the big movers and shakers in UK corporate capitalism – Glaxo Smith Kline, HSBC, Unilever, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Centrica and many others – ‘to reduce […]
Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the quest for legitimacy Nigel Copsey Palgrave/Macmillan 2004, £47.50, h/b The Radical Right in Britain Alan Sykes Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005, £16.99, p/b Modern British fascism has been poorly served by academic research, especially when it comes to coverage of the last two decades. These books attempt to … Read more
[…] The fact that during the period she describes Wilson wasn’t at Oxford, matters not a jot. (Little’s fantasies are referred to by Chapman Pincher, see Inside S tory p. 29, and have appeared a number of times in Kenneth de Courcy’s Special Office Brief). The now defunct Foreign Affairs Publishing Company of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. […]
Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher’s first election vic tory and the onset of the demented world as we know it in this country. No doubt books and TV programmes are being prepared. The most striking account of the first part of the Thatcher events is John Hoskyn’s Just In […]
[…] it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole s tory. Hardly anything about Young’s political activities in the late sixties and seventies is included. Even with those omissions this is an interesting document. We tried to […]
[…] who had a girlfriend who was also Secretary of the Beaconsfield Constituency Labour Party and Blair finally got selected as a Labour bye-election candidate in a solid Tory seat, thus fleshing out his otherwise thin CV, meeting some important people (Foot, Healey etc) and making a small number of media appearances. The hunt now […]
