[…] abuse because one (or possibly more) of their number were involved in a paedophile ring. The basis for the claim appears to be that Lord Kenyon, a Conservative member of the House of Lords who lived in Shropshire but had been a member of the Police Authority that covered north Wales, was a Freemason […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Fox probably don’t need explaining as much to us Europeans (to Leftists, at any rate). Straussians The Norton book is about the ‘Straussian’ strain in present-day neo- Conservative thought. The name comes from Leo Strauss, who is someone very few of us had heard of until recently. He was a Jewish refugee who fled […]
[…] p. 321 Yallop pp.320-21; Naylor p. 260; Gurwin p. 17; Cornwell p. 58 Guetta Naylor p. 260, 400 (note 3); Yallop p. 320 Sources Anderson, Malcolm – Conservative Politics in France, Allen and Unwin, London 1974 Comwell, Rupert – God’s Banker, Gollancz, London, 1983 Delarue, Jacques –The Gestapo, Dell, New York, 1964 Faligot, Roger […]
[…] Harold Macmillan, it was not surprising that the Nigerian political leader of great personal integrity and honesty — Awolowo — who based his party machine on the Conservative Party and was a devout Christian and believer in British fair play would soon after Independence find himself not in the President’s or Prime Minister’s office […]
[…] that they ‘could be flown into a trouble spot rapidly and discreetly, and operate in a remote area without publicity – a capability much valued by the Conservative Government of the day’ (pp. 150-151). There was considerable demand for their services throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s. De la Billiere himself served in […]
[…] Observer had stood out against the British invasion of Suez in 1956, despite courting the scorn of the government and the loss of some of its more conservative readers and advertisers. And yet this newspaper which had thrived on scepticism was seduced into accepting unproven and extravagant claims; this flagship of the left was […]
[…] the banks another £46 million: the public finances were running out of cash. (2) At this point alarm bells rang in London and Paris. In 1875 the Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli used the crisis to buy the Khedive’s shares in the newly built Suez Canal. In 1876 Egypt was forced to accept a […]
[…] the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. The media’s chosen standard bearer last time was the extraterrestrial Texas magnate Ross Perot (the media, liberal and conservative, regularly ignore the sizeable Libertarian Party and the efforts of Jesse Jackson while fixating on weird eccentrics). This time as a ‘third party’ possibility both Perot […]
[…] the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were reluctant to take. A perfect example occurred shortly after I became head of Foreign Counterintelligence in 1973. CIA officer Philip Agee approached our […]
