Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? […]
[…] April Owen Oyston filed a writ for libel against the BBC and its reporter Andrew Jennings. 28 April Preston Tory councillor Audrey Scott introduced Michael Murrin to Conservative MP Robert Atkins at her home in Preston. 30 April After insuring his life for £100,000, Murrin announced his Ratepayers Association would send information to Lancashire […]
[…] intellectual respectability and exposure for pro-corporate ideas. Liberal critics of religion sometimes fail to register the common interests that bind secular advocates of corporate power and socially conservative evangelicals. Their differences make for good cultural drama and offer some of the excitement of controversy and debate, but their apparent differences enlightened secular libertarianism […]
[…] when, in the early Eighties, both the Labour and Liberal parties opposed the major arms spending increases – nuclear and non-nuclear – central to Reagan and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. In the BAP version of its foundation it would appear that the institution of regular meetings of ’24 Americans and 24 Britons […]
[…] needed for action against Iraq and the UN was able to step in, win concessions from Baghdad and defuse the crisis. Some months later John Bolton, a conservative who was to become head of Arms Control and International Security in George W. Bush’s State Department, pointed to ‘a very deliberate effort to avoid a […]
[…] Lodge had apparently given permission for votes to be cast on their behalf. (2) Their votes had gone in pairs to relatives or friends of a local Conservative party worker; for the law states that a person cannot have more than two proxy votes assigned to them. Bunyan Lodge is in the De Parys […]
[…] into thinking that they were taking tranquilizers: bottles containing potassium cyanide, but labelled ‘Valium’, were scattered on the ground around the pavilion. Based upon this evidence, a conservative estimate would be that at least 700, and quite possibly more, of Jonestown’s victims were murdered. No other conclusion seems reasonable. Once Dr. Mootoo’s findings are […]
Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(1) This is … Read more
[…] a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she came to power. One […]
[…] the British and European economies since the seventies. And that monetarism itself is the enemy of enterprise, a financial orthodoxy which is the natural correlate of a conservative social and political orthodoxy. With its emphasis on tight money, high interest and exchange rates, conditions which slow down productive enterprise, and make it easier to […]
