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... conspiracy theorist's (sic) view of neo-liberalism achieves maximum plausibility. At every stage of the development of American conservatism and neo-liberal thinking, an interested party was bank-rolling the project. The Volcker Fund supplied the funding for the Chicago School's Free Market Study and paid for Hayek to travel from London and tour America. Conservative think tanks collected donations from corporations, to convert their anti-government instincts into credible research. Invisible Hands [one of the books under review] reports that, as early as 1958, twenty-six of the largest fifty American businesses were funding the free market American Enterprise Association...... What is shocking is ...
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... harassment.html> 26 <http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/12/08/nato-hosts-first-ever- briefing-for-bloggers/> At that address he lists the bloggers who were invited. 109 Summer 2010 As NuLab sinks beneath the waves H ere is former governor of Hong Kong and Conservative minister, Chris Patten, surveying the 13 years of NuLab: 'So here we are. What has it all been about? A devolved administration in Edinburgh, half of one in Cardiff, a hard- won settlement in Belfast, no advance in Brussels, a splurge of public spending, a mountain of debt, Brown's very own ...
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... small station licensed by the French government with a transmitter capable of reaching London and the South East from a base on the French Channel coast. Like Luxembourg this also began in 1933 and proved to be highly popular. As well as his immensely lucrative commercial interests Plugge also had a political career: in 1935 he was elected 35 Summer 2010 Conservative MP for Chatham. He also moved in the highest of high society circles with all the usual trappings of the uber-rich, including a London residence on Park Lane that he purchased from Baron Leopold de Rothschild. The considerable success of Radio Luxembourg, and Plugge's expansion of his network via the International Broadcasting Company to Spain, Yugoslavia ...
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... life. He found bourgeois life limiting and claustrophobic and when he qualified as a doctor he purchased a practice (these were pre-NHS days) in the working class district of Thornton Heath near Croydon. He stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate unsuccessfully on two occasions (once as an unofficial Liberal candidate), later switched to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat he retained in the 1959 general election. He stood again in 1964 as a 'Conservative and Independent' but lost. In 1936 Dr Johnson and his first wife, Christiane (subsequently killed in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted to see how ...
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... is is simply that the spooks (like other public bodies) are also now getting younger personnel, educated since the 1970s, many of whom cannot spell, punctuate or write coherently? Cometh the hour cometh the man? As a quick Google will show, there is quite a media band-wagon rolling now for Rory Stewart, prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for the safe Tory seat of Penrith. By any standards Stewart is a striking man but to date none of the major media portraits have seen fit to include the interesting information that Stewart is not, as they all report, a former diplomat, but a former member of MI6. (Is the bandwagon the MI6 media ...
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... Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of history into decades for media marketing purposes – 'roaring twenties', 'swinging sixties' – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended in Britain by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, 'Selsdon man', and then the real thing with Mrs Thatcher. As the delusions of the free marketeers crumble, so the history of the years in which these notions were dominant will be re-examined. ...
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... our Oxford Page 127 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 university days', and had been interviewed regularly on radio and TV long before becoming an MP in 1964. Had she really 'failed to appreciate the media interest in the latest phase' of the setting up of a new party that would for two general elections split opposition to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives? Evacuated by her parents to the United States in the Second World War, Williams has been criss-crossing the Atlantic ever since. Within days of her 1979 election defeat she was offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell's Labour Party for the ...
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... was divorced by his wife, model Sandra Paul, in 1965 as a result of his affair with Princess Margaret. He was found dead in 1968, the death being ruled as suicide due to clinical depression. Sandra Paul later married David Wynne-Morgan, who ran Annabel's night club, and is today married to Michael Howard MP, Conservative Party leader 2003-2005. Page 10 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Harold MacMillan to take the UK into the Common Market. Smedley, who was Vice President of the Liberal Party at this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be 'the last bastion of freedom if the ...
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... funded largely by the trade unions, headed by someone who might be a Soviet stooge.10 Labour took office again in 1974 and there followed two years of talks of coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson's retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party, was briefed by the anti-subversion network and apparently took on board the Soviet conspiracy theory. Her use of the expression 'the enemy within' about the NUM was a barely coded nod to the anti-subversion network.1 2 In the final paragraph of the thirty pages on the NUM strike in her bland memoir, ...
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... himself to throw down his idol and concludes: 'Nevertheless, most economists argue that comparative 3 Tracy Corrigan, Daily Telegraph 23 July 2009. 4 Niall Ferguson, 'There's no such thing as too big to fail in a free market', Telegraph, 5 October 2009. 5 Philip Booth, 'What this year's Nobel Prize winners can teach the Conservatives', Telegraph 18 October 2009. 6 'Edmund Conway looks at the economic principle of comparative advantage', Telegraph 1 September 2009. Page 81 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 advantage is still one of the most important and fundamental economic ideas of all, for it underlies world trade and globalisation, proving that nations can prosper even more ...
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