[…] over the next decade. The Tory Party would have to reject not the free market side (which Gordon Brown has absorbed) but the a-social side of the Thatcher Revolution to become electable – and its activists will not allow this to happen. From this point of view, Europe is a sideshow. Clearly, Tory free-thinkers […]
[…] end of ideology (ideology): Fukuyama-Huntington-Friedman, one could also add Charles Murray, greatly marketed by the new right. The New Labour set seemed attracted by how the ‘ Thatcher think tanks’ had done so well, but I wonder how much they knew here, the extent of the influence of the Heritage Foundation, how this tied […]
[…] Queen and, in the City, Lord Rothschild.’ Or… The Geneva Bible? The Testimony of Albert Rhys Williams? World Conservation Bank in the light of Kontradiev and Conspiracy? Thatcher and Reagan fold before wrath of Royalty and Rhodes scholars? A-Albionic is seriously weird (in the complimentary sense) and it/they has/have an extremely exotic mail order […]
[…] was simply killed by a burglar, Mr Green agreed it was. But he thought not. ‘I do believe that it was that issue of …… Dalyell embarrassing Thatcher which was the trigger that fuelled my aunt’s fate. It was the fear of what she might know.'(1) Mulling over Kintyre Ten years after 25 counter-terrorist […]
[…] from Amstrad PCW format to MS Word 4.0 Example of Amstrad PCW Formated file: Notes# +/ 1. The “New Right’ and those around Keith Joseph and Thatcher worked hard to portray the Lobster issues 26 onwards were produced in Macintosh Claris Works, and required converting to PC-formated files: Macintosh 3½-inch diskettes are read […]
The Westminster Whistleblowers: Shirley Porter, homes for votes and twenty years of scandal in Britain’s rottenest borough Paul Dimoldenberg London: Politicos, 2006, £12.99, p/b The author was a Labour councillor in Westminster during Porter’s ‘reign of terror’ and was instrumental in eventually bringing her down. With an insider’s view he has written an immensely […]
[…] it is that the technological nation of the 1950s and 60s he describes had so little influence that it was unable to prevent both the Heath and Thatcher governments from deregulating the City of London — and wrecking the manufacturing economy. Or, more interestingly perhaps, how it was that the Tories persuaded the manufacturing […]
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
[…] Special Branch, SAS and MI5. By the 1990s the British government was seeking an accommodation with Sinn Fein and counter-terror was passing out of favour. Whereas under Thatcher, the SAS (‘her boys’) had what amounted to a license to kill PIRA volunteers, under John Major the license was revoked. After 1990 the Chief Constable […]
[…] of trying to suppress chapter in OECD report on the economy which states that unemployment causes poverty. We kid you not! Guardian 16 June Material on Mrs Thatcher and her links with the Oman business and Trafalgar House removed from World in Action programme by IBA. This is the result of recent changes in […]
