[…] 157) There are two ‘perfects’ and a ‘rational’ in that sentence. I have never met a ‘perfect’ where human arrangements were concerned (and little rationality); nor have conservative thinkers. Theirs is a generally pessimistic view of human potential: that we’re flawed and likely to mess things up and the best we can hope for […]
[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]
[PDF file]: […] great demand. In October 2018 he spoke at ‘a conference of hedge funders who were brought together every year by Niall Ferguson, the British historian, writer and conservative commentator’. (p. 265) He was also involved in trying to secure alternative funding for Marine Le Pen’s Front National. He proposed they replace their Russian backers […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]
[PDF file]: […] civil servant, Mrs Pat Middleton, but ruled in 2008 that her complaint about telephone tapping lay outside their jurisdiction. Mrs Middleton, 61, former treasurer of a Manchester Conservative club, has now discovered that the private investigator had previously worked for the News of the World and had just served a prison sentence. After seeing […]
[PDF file]: […] export earnings of manufacturing.’ And he concluded that ‘we need to be in the vanguard of reindustrialisation.’ Who is David Green? He is director of Civitas, a conservative (and Conservative) think tank. The Telegraph’s business pages have run many articles in the last year about manufacturing, past and present, some looking enviously at the […]
[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to bemoaning the decline of the […]
[PDF file]: […] record straight.4 One initial point to make about Stirling is that – inevitably – he was a toff. His father was Brigadier General Archibald Stirling, a former Conservative MP and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire, and his mother was Margaret Fraser, the daughter of the 13th Baron Lovat. He had attended Ampleforth public school and, […]
