[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] was a strong champion of the veracity of the Protocols, ‘winning favourable comments from none other than Winston Churchill among many others. There was pressure from some Conservative MPs for an official inquiry into the Jewish conspiracy supposedly uncovered in the document’. (p. 31) The Times’ decision to publish Philip Graves’ three part exposé […]
[…] 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]: […] the Japanese economy in the long term – the opposite in fact. In contrast, the experience in the UK is that the austerity policies promoted by the Conservative governments since 2010 have resulted in more damage to the long term prospects of the UK economy and in its short term economic performance. Kelton does […]
[…] 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]: […] less humane instincts into the firm grip of the British state and its allies. When he became DPP in 2008 he worked closely with the Coalition and Conservative governments in the UK and the Obama administration in the US, commending himself as a safe pair of hands on both sides of the Atlantic. Eagleton’s […]
[PDF file]: […] left) supported/ penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America’s most important […]
[PDF file]: […] year as Labour’s communications chief, was another BAP recruit alongside Jeremy Paxman, who he was soon to join at the BBC. Paxman reportedly apologised to Mandelson after Conservative MP Matthew Parris ‘outed’ him on Newsnight. The BBC management then placed a protective barrier around Mandelson’s private life.14 Evan Davis was a younger ‘fellow’ of […]
