[…] apologised to civil servants for his denigration of them but: One senior government source said: ‘Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall. But I blame him and the Conservative Party for 14 years of low pay, bad leadership and demoralisation which means we don’t have the right people in the right places.’7 How, one wonders, […]
[PDF file]: […] tissue from Berlin and the blood sample given by Wolf Rüdiger to Professor Bowen. In January 1989, the British deputy foreign minister Lynda Chalker MP assured the Conservative MP Cyril Townsend: ‘Those who attach any credulity to Mr Thomas’s claims might ask 4 Hugh Thomas, Hess: A Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder & […]
[PDF file]: […] excessively high exchange rate.’ – Wynne Godley, The Observer (Business) 23 August 1998. By the time Labour took office Brown and Blair had promised to toe the conservative line on economic policy: no income tax rises, no increased public spending, no attempts to use government to direct the economy; and no reacquisition of the […]
[PDF file]: Is there a ‘political class’? Scott Newton It has become fashionable to argue that Britain is in the grip of its own ‘political class’. Most recently the idea has been promulgated by Peter Oborne, in his 2007 book, The Triumph of the Political Class. I have been sceptical about this, remembering the dominance of Oxbridge-educated […]
[PDF file]: […] is really a return to the world of nation-states; and the parts of the 21st century US counter-culture that have grouped themselves around Trump/ Trumpism are mostly conservative because the culture to which they are counter is the modern Liberalist-capitalist globalisation project. Trumpism and all its handmaidens constitute a movement that seeks to turn […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 1 Laffer is well known […]
[PDF file]: […] when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet […]
[PDF file]: […] discussed the attitude of the UK government toward joining the EEC on 15 October. Lemass thought a Labour government would be harder to deal with than a Conservative. Kennedy thought Labour would do more to get the UK into EEC. The US view was that Wilson would be more positive about Europe than Gaitskell. […]
[PDF file]: […] Hayward’s brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst ( Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In […]
