[…] wants to replace Trident, begin to stray from Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran ‘two brains’ David Willetts on hand for a future Conservative cabinet. Already a powerful influence on David Cameron is Steve Hilton,() an early BAP recruit and a fellow trustee of the Citizenship Foundation with Maclay. Guardian […]
[…] of invisible strings; their manipulation was an altogether subtler art. The ideal for the secret service marionette-masters was, after all, to use left-wing extremists to serve their conservative cause without any direct contact or collusion’. Some elements of his case he argues persuasively — for instance the possibility that with the 1974 arrest of […]
Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit … Read more
[…] book. ‘Unusual’ because Young, who is generally regarded as a racialist and political extremist, appears as a reasonable human being. Like Young, Cavendish was accepted as a Conservative candidate in the early seventies, though their politics were to the right of the party. Cavendish, in Diana Menuhin’s account, was “so British as to belong […]
[…] and drug dealing began to circulate. Sound familiar? Michael Allcock, a tax inspector recently jailed for corruption, has claimed that he was fitted up after investigating a Conservative ex-government minister who was alleged to have relations with Nadir. Allcock had interviewed Robertson. Allcock was also investigating Howard Marks. In 1994, I contacted Pat through […]
[PDF file]: […] a TUC increasingly accustomed to dealing in the political arena, wedded to a major political party which, almost alone in Europe, encompassed the majority of the non- Conservative working class. At the same time, the government’s apparatus for manipulating public opinion had grown inordinately, enabling it – on its own estimate – to confront […]
[PDF file]: […] of the political side can be found in Rob Wilson’s Five Days to Power (Biteback, 2010) which provides a thorough look at the Cameron-Clegg negotiations. Although a Conservative MP, Wilson’s narrative is not noticeably partisan (perhaps because he began his career in the Social Democratic Party ) and he provides some intriguing background detail […]
[PDF file]: […] by elements within the security forces of the United Kingdom seeking to destabilise the Government of the day and to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period […]
[PDF file]: […] Report (see note 1) p. 66. 5 ;and James Hilder, ‘Iraq war killed 162,000 people, according to final count’, The Times, 3 January 2012. this is a conservative estimate. US military casualties, though not as grim as the Iraqi death toll, are still significant with 4,484 killed and 32,300 wounded as of December 2011, […]
[PDF file]: […] a ‘dash for growth’, but an attempt to rejig British capitalism in preparation for EEC entry. This was not widely understood at the time, even in the Conservative Party. Norman Tebbitt, for example, writing in the mid-1980s, looked back on the Heath ‘U-turn’ from the free market emphasis of Selsdon Man and saw a […]
