[…] which he stated that he had been approached ten days before the hostage taking with a view to reporting the capture. Glover was approached by an unnamed Conservative MP with an interest in Africa, who suggested flying with him and a senior director of Lonrho to Unita’s headquarters at Jamba, Southern Angola, to preside […]
[…] first: why did the story emerge now? The answer, I think, is to be found in the veiled complaints in the last year or so from the Conservative Party that Boothroyd, qua Speaker of the House of Commons, was prejudiced against them. The charge has no foundation as far as I am aware: it […]
[…] a functioning military concept for the US, which can be located in the evolution of US strategic doctrine. In the early 1980s, the first period of neo- conservative dominance in US politics, analysts of international relations were struck by similarities between the ‘new cold war’ prosecuted by the Reagan administration and the great power […]
[…] never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. On page 15 he describes Lesley Wooler as a member of the 62 […]
[…] a number of consultation papers and statements covering encryption and electronic commerce in recent years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) taking the lead role.(9) Both Conservative and Labour governments, in their 1997 and 1998 papers, proposed some form of key escrow system, in which a user’s private encryption key is held by […]
[…] INC.(18) Rose then does a classic series of guilt-by-association smears. David Rose: ‘On the one hand, she has written for Pat Buchanan’s extreme right-wing journal, the American Conservative ….’ RR: I wonder if Rose has ever seen American Conservative? I hadn’t, so I looked at the on-line issue displayed in August and saw articles […]
[…] 37, 1982, an article called ‘Victory for Strauss’. The Langemann papers 8th November 1979 Protected source contributions to state security. Personal for the state minister only”The militant conservative London publicist, Brian Crozier, Director of the famous Institute for the Study of Conflict up to September 1979, has been working with his diverse circle of […]
[…] appeared in 1991. This is easily the most interesting and informative book on the Thatcher years to have appeared so far. Ranelagh was a member of the Conservative Research Department (CRD) between 1975-79 — a member of the internal opposition to Mrs Thatcher while ‘Thatcherism’ was being cobbled together by group around her. The […]
[…] by Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, a liberal in the Hullian tradition. Morgenthau left the Treasury and the post of Secretary was taken by Fred Vinson, a fiscally conservative mid-Western machine politician. White’s influence began to diminish (after the end of the war he came under suspicion of being a Soviet agent).(35) Power shift The […]
[…] the exposure of the lies and illusions within the carefully balanced society that has emerged over the last three hundred years as much as any traditionalist or conservative. And yet things are palpably beginning to fail. The US has a constitution that still permits lurches of adjustment to changed conditions – we think of […]
