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[…] Hurd, now Minister for Northern Ireland. It would be interesting to know if this Round Table connection has anything to do with his promotion within the contemporary Conservative Party despite his role as Heath’s private secretary and apologist. A profile of Hurd in the Sunday Telegraph (16 September 1984) contains a good deal of […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] USA. EXTRA! Extra! is the magazine of FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, one of the handful of left-wing magazines in the US trying to stem the conservative tide. It is exclusively concerned with US events and rarely means much to UK readers who have not seen the media to which it refers. However […]

[…] by the late Sir Fitzroy Maclean…… managing director, Christopher James…..Baroness Smith joins Sir Brian Cubbon, a former top civil servant, Lord Laing of Dunphail, Treasurer of the Conservative Party towards the end of the Thatcher period…Earl Jellicoe….Sir Peter Cazalet, director of the P and O Group, former BP Chairman…and Sir Peter Holmes, one-time managing […]

[…] was invited to have lunch with GKY and Eric Lancasterat the Caledonian Club in Halkin Street, SW1. Eric Lancaster was a Justice of the Peace and a Conservative trade unionist. Some time later I found that my name had appeared on Tory Action stationery as a committee member, which was a surprise. My work […]