[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 […]
[…] 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 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of online videos with […]
[PDF file]: […] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but no newspaper would handle my friend Andy Chapman’s story about Chris More hacking phones inside a Manchester Conservative club, Howard Foster hushed me: ‘Just accept that Chris More is the Ultimate Hacker. Beyond your wildest imagination. He hacked a cabinet minister.’ As soon as […]
[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. […]
