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Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?
[PDF file]: […] International.1 1 Lord Maginnis of Drumglass is Ken Maginnis, former Ulster Unionist MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, from 1983 to 2001. Michael Mates MP was a Conservative Northern Ireland minister from 1992 to 1993 until forced to resign after the publication of a letter he had written to the attorney-general in support of […]
View from the bridge
[…] 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 […]
View from the bridge
[…] 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 […]
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
[…] sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended in Britain by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]
view from bridge
[…] 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 […]
General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24
[PDF file]: […] on 31 March. By then he had also lunched at least twice at the Dorchester with General Sikorski and his influential British liaison officer Colonel Victor Cazalet, Conservative MP for Chippenham. A new timeline reveals that on Saturday, 10 May 1941, on the night of the heaviest-ever German bombing raid on London, Hess and […]
Maggie’s guilty secret
[PDF file]: […] taken in evidence by the Metropolitan Police as the investigation unfolded. These still exist and point directly to the direct complicity of the CIA, Whitehall and the Conservative government in a murky tale of illegality and corruption at the heart of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations. Many got rich out of the inside knowledge […]
The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] recount events which, by his own standards, filled him with shame. The story he told his son could not be uplifting or evidence that indeed the father’s conservative ideals had triumphed or were in any way worthy of emulation. Of course some of the feelings burdening the principal in the story cannot be attributed […]