[…] (He was also keen on astrology, which is frowned on in evangelical circles in the normal run of things). Nevertheless Reagan appreciated the value of the evangelical vote and recognised that Falwell’s organisation Moral Majority could deliver. At a meeting of the Religious Roundtable in October 1979, Reagan famously declared to an audience of […]
[…] as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, is a […]
Mandy’s place in things On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal. The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked except […]
[…] far to the right. There’s not much of a living to made in America by being a lefty writer, is there? Hitchens’ writing is collected at . Vote fraud 2004 Meanwhile, more or less unreported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of the Republican theft of the 2004 […]
[…] on the Riviera. I love Cafarkis. And liver.’ ‘Mary Jo’s intestines were chopped into hors d’ouevres – wafers for brave, free Americans who support us and will vote me queen. Courtesy of Ma and Pa Kopechne, who clutch Cushing’s crosses saying “We don’t care if it was murder. We are satisfied.” On to Fatima […]
[…] 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 turkeys to repeatedly vote for Christmas… RR
[…] the British motor industry with a campaign of strikes.’ You can just see it, can’t you? Presumably it went something like this. Voice from floor: ‘Move the vote’. Chair: ‘Those in favour of destroying the British car industry please show.’ Fairly typically, Wright doesn’t bother to date this meeting, though from the context it […]
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more
[…] themselves as evangelical Christians, and a quarter believed they were living in the ‘end times’. That is a huge number: the equivalent of half of those who vote in Presidential elections. Premillennialism has also, Northcott thinks, influenced American religion more generally, making it much more Manichaean (the ‘good/evil’ thing), antisocial, crusading and war-like than […]
