[…] the food producers. At one point Nott describes himself as ‘a rebel by nature’. Let’s see: from public school to Cambridge University, into the City and the Conservative Party, back to the City and thence, after a brief, eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman – that […]
[…] him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the nature of the periodical, believing it merely to be some local Conservative newsletter. I know Leigh and when I first read this story in Searchlight I was amazed. There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, […]
[…] do they have to do to get the sack?) NB on this paragraph see the correction in Lobster 26. Kevin Taylor — Manchester businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief […]
On April 22, 1993 both BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) … Read more
[…] We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating […]
[…] threatened by Soviet expansionism (13). (This had always been Angleton’s view and the reason for his support of Israel.) By 1979 Commentary had become a full-blown neo- Conservative, pro-Reagan platform: the editor, Norman Podhoretz, had even seen the prospect of the ‘Finlandisation of America’ lurking behind detente. (14). Along the way two books had […]
[…] Briefing, edited by a former head of MI5’s F Branch, Charles Elwell. In 1995 it was revealed that in 1963 IRIS had received £40,000 from the ( Conservative) government via its ‘secret vote’, unaccountable funds, and a further £35,000 from a number of large companies, including Ford and Shell. See The Times, Guardian and […]
[…] pro-nuclear, pro-EU and pro-destroying the public sector. The only significant difference is that the Cameroons are linked to a different cluster of corporate sponsors. The NuLab and Conservative parties’ use of PR is discussed but that isn’t the meat of those chapters. This is the best introduction to real power politics in this society […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Public Prosecutor’s report into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Section D1023 – D4936 One of Al Fayed’s more unlikely supporters has been Charles Wardle, the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle. On 22 June 1999. He opened an adjournment debate on the accountability of the Metropolitan Police over the arrest of Al […]
