[…] 1970s and the conflict it produced with the unions was the first really big bump in the economic road since 1945, and the Labour Party allowed the Conservative Party and its supporting media to produce a false narrative about the decade, which blamed the unions and the party they funded. The true story was […]
[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]
[…] the standards of France, Germany, Denmark etc, it is one. But uniquely, among European states as far as I know, there is a minority of the ruling Conservative Party which wants the state to fail; which welcomes a failing state; which regards the state as essentially a necessary evil to be kept as small […]
[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]
[PDF file]: […] turned on Cameron’s government with a vengeance. On 25 March the Sunday Times broke the ‘cash for access’ story with accompanying video, forcing the resignation of the Conservative Party’s cotreasurer, the appropriately named Peter Cruddas. This was accompanied by a systematic savaging of George Osborne’s budget in the Sun. It was condemned as a […]
[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]
[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), […]
[PDF file]: […] pinned on the burgeoning punk scene. Alas, Rhoda Dakar (later lead singer in The Bodysnatchers) recalls ‘Joe Strummer talked in slogans’; Paul Weller proclaimed he would vote Conservative at the next election;4 Malcolm McLaren was too obviously a hustler; Ian Dury and John Lydon were, in different ways, unpredictable. This left Tom Robinson (who […]
[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]
