[…] and the City of London and an expanding middle class … this hegemonic group, based at the popular and the political level on a fusion between the Conservative and pre-1914 Liberal parties, was committed to the defence of free enterprise and the limited state against the internal threat of socialism and the external menace […]
[…] fifties his sympathies were very much with Labour until it fell into hands of what he regarded as Wilson’s gang of spivs. His subsequent support for the Conservative Party was somewhat qualified and he had utter contempt for Heath after his economic U-turn in 1972, his surrender to the miners and his kow-towing to […]
[…] that the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right – Brian Crozier et al – had ‘captured’ a significant section of the leadership of the Conservative Party which had actually tried to use them to damage the elected government of the day. None of this is included in the Routledge biography of […]
[…] had looked for alternative government for most of the 20th century. Given the ambition of their undertaking and the SDP’s significance in dividing early opposition to a Conservative party now in power for 17 years, it is curious then that we have to wait until now for a detailed account. It is also disappointing […]
[…] view was put in words to them.’ Why did Kennedy decline to reveal his political persuasions? Did he have something to conceal? In 1964 Norris was the Conservative candidate at Orpington. With Ross and Kennedy he was probably a Conservative in 1958. However there is evidence which suggests that they also belonged to another […]
[…] found its intellectual advocates. Importantly this was not seen by its proponents as a shift towards conservatism. Bell stated: ‘The perspective I adopt is anti-ideological, but not conservative. repudiation of ideology, to be meaningful, must mean not only a criticism of the utopian order but of existing society as well.'(52) Not simply a CIA […]
[…] Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 124-130. Ibid, pp. 72-77. Orwell’s third way must not, of course, be confused with New Labour’s third way as advocated by Orwell’s conservative namesake, Tony Blair. New Labour’s third way is committed not to the socialist but to the capitalist transformation of British society. For Orwell as Tribune Socialist […]
[…] throughout the world, attention has been diverted from what the other side are up to over here. In fact, just four years and five months after the Conservative Government expelled 105 Soviet KGB and GRU (military intelligence) officers from Britain, the Russian spy network is back at full strength. There are nearly 200 Soviet-controlled […]
[…] Given the choice between a multi-racial, socially progressive Labour Party and nuclear interests, there wasn’t one. Now why was it that Matrix Chambers chose to represent the conservative interest in this legal conflict? To defend human rights? Can they hack it? An interesting British connection of Kissinger Associates is Hakluyt and Company Ltd, a […]
[…] coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings. Tom Spencer MEP, RIP About a month before the political demise of the Conservative MEP and former leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, Tom Spencer, I was asked by a researcher at the European Parliament what I knew about […]
