[…] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]
[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 […]
[…] was to cut consumption by cutting wages and it wanted a statutory incomes policy. For a Labour government, largely funded by the trade unions, 1 See . Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in a ‘dash for growth’ and so greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies were suffering after […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘In her 2021 article ‘The Big Money behind the Big Lie’, Jane Mayer provides the evidence to conclude that a tide of money – mostly funneled through conservative interest groups such as the Bradley Foundation, Turning Point USA, True the Vote, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and others – are doing for election […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] with ‘the US government and people who control a hefty budget line, kleptocratic networks from some of the most notorious countries in Africa and Latin America, the conservative Koch network and its allies in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the top reaches of Democratic Party leadership’. (pp. 100-101) Money clearly beats politics in […]
[…] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?34 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a Union Jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]
[PDF file]: […] control Germany’s mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the […]
