[…] over the past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a ” conservative cast of mind”’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Ukrainian farright.18 Looking at Skidelsky’s Wikipedia entry,19 the man has had a complex political journey. A founder member of the SDP, he moved to the Conservative Party. At one point he was appointed a Conservative spokesman in the House of Lords but was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly […]
[PDF file]: […] the 1997 General Election’ in Lobster 73.1 What happened to the external management review of Broadmoor highsecurity hospital that Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had commissioned, once the Conservative Party had left office? The report was sent to his office in April 1997, shortly before the Conservatives lost power at that year’s General Election. The […]
[…] over the past 30 years or so.3 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a ” conservative cast of mind”’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan […]
[PDF file]: […] Murdoch has a slyer sense of humour than we realised, since it was precisely the abolition of the ‘fairness doctrine’ that enabled the growth of the rabidly- conservative self-styled ‘fair and balanced’ Fox News. Murdoch’s covert pas de deux with the Gipper raises interesting questions about news coverage of some of the 14 CIA’s […]
[PDF file]: […] the home? The two men said to have visited the source for the Express story and told him of paedophile parties in the south of England, former Conservative MP Humphrey Berkeley and Robin Bryans, are dead. Robin Bryans used to send me long, barely intelligible letters and did not mention any of this, even […]
[PDF file]: […] could be persuaded to embark on this journey – even though most of the senior leadership of the unions would probably have welcomed it – with a Conservative government. (And it is absolutely bizarre that anyone in the Heath government associated with this could ever have thought otherwise.) The author writes: ‘For a brief […]
[PDF file]: […] unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There is also the determination of retired generals and politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties to cover up the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Without any shame whatsoever, the war was portrayed as being about the protection […]
[…] (non-communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America’s most important […]
[PDF file]: […] year as Labour’s communications chief, was another BAP recruit alongside Jeremy Paxman, who he was soon to join at the BBC. Paxman reportedly apologised to Mandelson after Conservative MP Matthew Parris ‘outed’ him on Newsnight. The BBC management then placed a protective barrier around Mandelson’s private life.14 Evan Davis was a younger ‘fellow’ of […]
