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The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones
[PDF file]: […] (SOE). He was parachuted into Albania in April 1943, on the flight out reading Horse and Hound and the Tatler! Jones insists that while he had ‘ conservative . . . leanings’, he was by and large ‘uninterested in politics’. (p. 83) Once again, this seems much too generous. In fact, his conservatism was […]
part 1 best copy
[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] been involved with the National Union of Students in the early 1980s. He 33 recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many […]
A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[PDF file]: […] If so, whatever could be gleaned about Hess from this contact could be used against anyone trying to negotiate with him: i.e. Bevin thought elements in the Conservative party were trying to reach a deal with the Nazi regime, and wanted material that would discredit them. Another explanation might be that the enquiry to […]
You get the report you pay for
[PDF file]: […] on the nation’s doorstep will be an increasingly important asset, helping spread wealth and growth across the UK as a whole’, trills the advertorial, neatly addressing the Conservative government’s shaky, if not calamitous, relationship with ‘growth’ and ‘levelling up.’ How then does the CEBR report substantiate these claims? If one could sum it up […]
GArrick part one best copy
[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output […]
Miscellaneous reviews
[PDF file]: […] wanted the author to make a judgement: this one, although denied, looks true. He never does. So we finish as we began: Opus Dei, officially, is a conservative, proselytising sect within the Catholic Church. Its critics, including some former members, say it is also a conspiracy; that while there is a public front, a […]
Book reviews
[…] also writes well: ‘What ended in the slump of 2008-9 was a decade of increasingly frenzied profit-taking in a metropolitan financial sector run out of control. The Conservative political elite had migrated to it as dealers, executives and corporate lawyers, and no longer supported the elite plus middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised […]