[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a group of right-wing politicians’. (6) Enoch Powell denied any connection with the station, but its station manager admitted to The Observer that he was ‘basically a Conservative and had once stood unsuccessfully for election as a Conservative city councillor.'(7) There was some speculation that it was funded by the South African government, but […]
[…] Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The widespread shock which greeted his assassination was probably nowhere more clearly felt than by Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the Conservative opposition. Neave had masterminded Thatcher’s rise to power in the Conservative Party, organising her election as party leader. It was probably him who directed the ‘dirty […]
