[…] an eyebrow. By their omissions . . . Michael Gove, the outgoing Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, passes for an intellectual in today’s Conservative Party. In May he delivered a speech on anti-semitism.13 He made some interesting points. This paragraph, for example: There are no BDS campaigns directed against Bashar […]
[PDF file]: […] a merchant bank. He was thus well aware of the psychological outlook that existed in the City. 2 2 Enter Goldsmith Post-1992, the official position of the Conservative government remained that the UK would rejoin the ERM as soon as was practicable. The problem was Major never had enough Conservative votes to execute such […]
[PDF file]: […] bank-rolling the project. The Volcker Fund supplied the funding for the Chicago School’s Free Market Study and paid for Hayek to travel from London and tour America. Conservative think tanks collected donations from corporations, to convert their anti-government instincts into credible research. Invisible Hands reports that, as early as 1958, twenty-six of the largest […]
[…] to the lessons of Major’s locust years. His government needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc […]
[…] Lobster. *new* By their omissions . . . Michael Gove, the outgoing Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, passes for an intellectual in today’s Conservative Party. In May he delivered a speech on anti-semitism.1 He made some interesting points. This paragraph, for example: There are no BDS campaigns directed against Bashar […]
[PDF file]: […] to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat he retained in the 1959 general election. He stood again in 1964 as a ‘Conservative and Independent’ but lost. In 1936 Dr Johnson and his first wife, Christiane (subsequently killed in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted […]
[PDF file]: […] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]
[…] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]
[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]
[…] was to cut consumption by cutting wages and it wanted a statutory incomes policy. For a Labour government, largely funded by the trade unions, 1 See . Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in a ‘dash for growth’ and so greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies were suffering after […]
