[…] offered.) p. 27 ‘the Royal Institute of International Affairs is the foreign policy executive arm of the British monarchy.’(11) Ha! (And no evidence offered.) p. 29 ‘Lady Thatcher had been dumped as head of state by her own Conservative Party on Bilderberg orders and replaced with trapeze artist (sic) John Major.’ Not only is […]
[…] War, published in the U.S and Australia, for example, but not here, because of certain sections of it which contain allegations about the business affairs of Mark Thatcher. (See Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian October 8 1992) The story in outline has been hinted at often enough: Thatcherfils uses mumsy’s name to open doors […]
[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to […]
[…] Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday managed ‘10 brief mentions’ in his big Blair book. Was it any different with Margaret Thatcher? ‘Hugo Young’s much-praised book on Margaret Thatcher, One of Us, reserves one minor, passing reference to Murdoch,’ writes Oborne. Will, the political chroniclers be more outspoken […]
[…] selected individuals seems likely. (6)The contribution of the SDP in which Rodgers, Horam, Thomas and Wrigglesworth were prominent members to British society was to keep Thatcher in power after 1981 by dividing the vote against her in 1983 and 1987. The impact this had on UK manufacturing and municipal government (the core […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
[…] judges were unofficially allocated to miners’ cases for “consistency,”‘ a remark that casts some doubt on the concept of a fair trial.(15) David Hart, unofficial adviser to Thatcher during the Miners’ Strike and generous supporter of working miners, has been said by some to have achieved literary immortality in David Peace’s fictional account of […]
[…] first sign of recession the MPC behaved just like any demand management ‘Keynesian’ politician of the type that was supposed to have been made extinct in the Thatcher years with one huge difference: before Mrs Thatcher the government would have used public, state spending to create demand in the domestic economy; the MPC […]
[…] he schemed with right-wing Oklahoma lawyer R. Marc Nuttle (‘National Field Consultant’ to the Committee For The Survival of a Free Congress) to lure Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to a luncheon for the Private Enterprises Foundation. It is claimed that Holihan’s share of the proceeds was to be nothing less than $50,000. Unfortunately for […]
