[…] apparently stood for; and Thatcher, too, despite her rhetoric, relaxed her convictions when it suited. For her, of course, all post-war Conservative leaders, with the exception of Churchill (and then only because he was the great war leader who went ga-ga in his second term) were little better than closet socialists, accepting the ‘ratchet […]
[…] Inquiry D2.111 See Inquiry G12.30. The Report summarised the involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘ Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would […]
[…] we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) Notes 1 A typical broadcast would include extracts from ‘…Winston Churchill speeches, a rendition of “Land of Hope and Glory”, popular music…, military-style music, drum-rolls, criticism of the “left-wing” social services in Coventry, “humorous” songs sending up […]
[…] Committee, Maurice Archdeacon, which begins by asserting that Whittaker’s talk of crisis ‘is to make a melodramatic mountain out of several vaguely discerned molehills’. To paraphrase Winston Churchill: Some molehill! Some mole! In his new book, reviewed below, Mark Urban notes at one point that the British spooks chose not tell their nominal political […]
[…] ‘the Jews seem to exercise even greater influence here over the British Parliament and politicians than they do at home’. The group was firmly convinced that Winston Churchill and his son Randolph (along with Anthony Eden) were ‘the abject slaves of Bernie Baruch’. The LEL shared the DAC’s obsession with the ‘hidden hand’. One […]
[…] decidedly militaristic purpose, being essentially a prerequisite for the development of NATO.(2) It is less generally acknowledged, however, that this unprecedented exercise of international generosity (dubbed by Churchill the ‘most unsordid act in history’) served direct economic purposes for the internationally oriented US corporations which promoted it. William Clayton, for example, the Undersecretary for […]
[…] facets can be obscured by his meticulous concern for evidence. That same evidence may well bury rather than inspire the campaign for reforms he espouses. The Matrix Churchill affair, I think will prove to be a case in point of this very same process. Yet — and yet, there is for the avid buff […]
[PDF file]: […] says nothing of note in his record of 24-28 May 1940, the period John Lukacs covers in Five Days in London: May 1940,3 and a moment when Churchill came close to having to allow peace talks with Germany via Italy. Finally, there is no mention at all here of what happened on 7 June […]
[PDF file]: […] – with a vengeance. Criticising Edward Heath for being only half-hearted in his attempt at dismantling Britain’s socialist economy in the 1970s, he conveniently forgets that Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas Home – all Tories – had held the office of Prime Minister throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s […]
[PDF file]: […] peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed […]
