[…] certainly did not think MI5 was on the ball where the perceived menace from the Soviets and the left was concerned; and they got access to Mrs Thatcher when she was leader of the Opposition after 1975. On p. 670 Andrew tells us that when William Whitelaw became Home Secretary in the first Thatcher […]
[PDF file]: […] secret contact with the chair of the disciplinary appeal panel, in order to subvert the fair hearing to which I was entitled. The findings led to Mrs Thatcher being forced to admit in Parliament that, as Prime Minister, she and her Ministers had ‘inadvertently’ misled Parliament about my role in Northern Ireland. As a […]
[PDF file]: […] British exports of educational and financial services; but they also pay for military hardware, building on the relationship which started in the 1960s. British governments since the Thatcher era have actively supported arms exports to the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region which now accounts for 50 per cent of ‘all defence sales […]
[PDF file]: […] in his Eye column’. (p. 264) ‘told that he wished to be sufficiently well briefed to be able to counter “some of the rather extreme advice” Mrs Thatcher had received.’ That advice had been coming from Crozier and his colleagues.7 A cautious, tiresomely bureaucratic MI5 is how David Shayler saw the organisation in the […]
[PDF file]: […] read Gerald James’ 1995 In The Public Interest, and James is quoted on the site. Andrew Rosthorn has pointed out that some of it appeared in ‘ Thatcher, Astra, Iraq & murder of Gerald Bull’ in Intelligence 81, 8 June 1998, p. 1. Bilderberg comes to Watford Watford? Strange choice of venue: close enough […]
[PDF file]: […] And, thus, the generation of profit from state or public sector activities became a priority of the private sector. This was as important as anything accomplished by Thatcher and produced billions of pounds a year in consultancy fees. Brown recognised that in a world dominated by big business and the banks, public expenditure was […]
[…] And, thus, the generation of profit from state or public sector activities became a priority of the private sector. This was as important as anything accomplished by Thatcher and produced billions of pounds a year in consultancy fees. Brown recognised that in a world dominated by big business and the banks, public expenditure was […]
[PDF file]: […] history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade Nicholas Gilby London: Pluto Press, 2015, p/b, £14.00 This is very good: clearly written, massively documented1 and carefully done. Mark Thatcher, for example, some of whose wealth is widely believed to come from BAE’s 1985 Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis, isn’t mentioned. What might be sayable […]
[PDF file]: […] you really want to change things and you want to get listened to, that’s the place to be.’ 1 On the other hand, Norman Lamont wrote: ‘Margaret Thatcher certainly knew when to disregard market research. In the 1980s, opinion polls regularly showed that voters preferred public spending to tax cuts. Mrs Thatcher insisted on […]
[PDF file]: […] in his concluding paragraphs headed ‘The struggle for values’, writes: The analysis of this book . . . forces us to reinterpret the historical significance of Margaret Thatcher, an ardent Atlanticist. While she is mostly credited with reducing the role of the state, cutting the power of trade unions and promoting private enterprise, her […]
