[…] 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]: […] or another hung Parliament with Callaghan remaining at Downing Street as the leader of the biggest single party. Thatcher would clearly not have won – and the Conservative Party would then have dumped her, as they planned to do. To imply that this wouldn’t have occurred, or simply didn’t matter, is to underplay, massively, […]
[PDF file]: […] Lobster 61 the last economy-wide recession in 1994.’ 1 9 But nothing has actually been done. This is not surprising. How do the British state and the Conservative Party now decide to build an industrial strategy? Does the British state have people in its upper echelons who believe in the economically active state (except […]
[PDF file]: […] appears to map very roughly on to the political cycle: electability seems the preferred strategy of the far right during a Labour government and violence during a Conservative one. A fundamental issue in this kind of research is that the distance between the academics and what they write about often appears so huge that […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Sykes, bizarrely, appeared twice on the list: the first time receiving two ticks, the second time four hearty ones. Also somewhat bizarrely (considering he is now a Conservative peer) Sebastian Coe received a question mark. 9 Thatcherism: The Final Solution . . . .’ 10 This is Hill’s entry: ‘Ingenious: individual choice must be […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the Guardian hunted […]
[…] idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.3 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s 1977 plan to fight the miners on the government’s terms, the so-called Ridley Plan for Coal, was rediscovered a few weeks into the […]
[PDF file]: […] were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neo Conservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer and not a member of […]
