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... century'. Yes, but he hasn't answered how 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 turkeys to repeatedly vote for Christmas.... RR Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-16.htm
... Future historians of the Conservative Party may discover that upon its heart in the 1960s "Rhodesia" was indelibly graven.(1 ) With the arrival of Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came "the New Right", with about as much claim to be called "new" as had the "New Left' a decade earlier. Although the Tory right has a history with the same kinds of continuities and discontinuities as the Labour left, it lacks a detailed historical record like there is of the Labour left, for the Tory right has mostly organised semi-clandestinely.(2 ) The best example of this is the 92 Group, founded by Patrick Wall around 1964 (precise ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 247 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-02.htm
... dialogue. Television refuses to allow its audience to simply watch the image: it must always be interpreted by a commentator. So what does that have to do with the books in question? The same process is at work when it comes to photographs. Consider three relatively famous photographs. In 1964 the Daily Mirror published a photograph of the Tory peer Lord Boothby sitting near the gangster Ronnie Kray. The German magazine Stern used the photograph with a caption that noted that both men were homosexuals. Boothby later won an astonishing 40,000 in a libel case. Boothby claimed that the photograph was totally innocent and that there was no homosexual relationship. Deputy Chief Constable John Stalker is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-15.htm
... it got its hands back on economic policy. Notice how Roberts puts this: "Two decades of cheap money came to an end in November 1951 when the New Conservative Chancellor revived the use of interest rates as an instrument of economic policy. ' "An instrument of economic policy', my foot. All that happened was that the Tory Chancellor put the interest rates up for the money-lenders who ran the party. In writing his essay Roberts cites not one of the writers who have been working in this field since the early 1970s. Do we really have to reinvent the wheel? A feeble creature though it is, Roberts' essay makes an appropriate scene- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-11.htm
... Bethell, The War Hitler Won (1972) Anthony Cave Brown, "C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980,1983) Simon Haxey, Tory M.P . (1939) David Irving, Goering (1989) R. Lamb, The Ghosts of Peace (1987) Lobster 17 (1988) and Who's Who of the British Secret State (1989) Interview with Kenneth de Courcy. Biographical details are taken from Who's Who, 1940. In one case (Lord McGowan ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-03.htm
... .(39) Besides this, some of the more important and active members of the BF -- such as Nesta Webster, the Lintorn Ormans and Lord and Lady Sydenham -- were close friends and associates of the Duke.(40) Northumberland's fascist associations are important, for although often portrayed as one of the more eccentric Diehard Tories, he enjoyed considerable popularity amongst back-bench Conservative MPs, and commanded a certain degree of respect from Conservative Cabinet Ministers (however much they may have considered him a disruptive influence). Northumberland played a major role -- along with Colonel John Gretton, Admiral Hall and Lord Salisbury -- in the Conservative revolt against the Lloyd ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-01.htm
... , the Economic League's manual Companies under Attack, had already targetted a number of these charities for criticism -- but they were, nevertheless, the group most publicly associated with it. In June 1987 they published a report on Christian Aid (researched by David Neil- Smith) which was well received by conservative newspapers; and at the Tory Party conference in October that year the charities were the main target of the Goalies fringe meeting, 'Alms for the Poor or Arms for Communism? ' This campaign continued in 1989, concentating on the charities involved in 'Central America week'. A 'special' Western Goals (UK) report, written by Michael McCrone and Gideon Sherman ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-03.htm
... subscribed to this opinion was Lord Holden of the Midland Bank, who, along with Aberconway, had gone to meet Goering in the abortive attempt at mediation made in August 1939. (70) Within the Cabinet Halifax and Hoare identified themselves particularly strongly with Chamberlain's line, as did Rab Butler, the deputy Minister at the Foreign Office. Tory grandees such as the Duke of Westminster and Lord Londonderry, and the Duke of Buccleugh, brother-in-law of the King, were anxious about the future security of the British Empire should Britain become entangled in a continental war, emerging either defeated or vastly diminished in wealth, and they continually pressed for a quick conclusion to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-04.htm
... , a casualty of the Lynsky Tribunal hearings during the winter of 1948. The Tribunal had been set up by the government to look into the activities of a Polish emigré known as Sydney Stanley who was alleged to have bribed John Belcher, a Labour M.P . and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. Headline news in the Tory press for several weeks, the case looked like becoming a major scandal and political problem for the Labour Party. But when the Tribunal finished and nothing of consequence was discovered, everyone wondered what this minor tale of black market racketeers in ration-bound Britain had really been about. Looking at the transcripts 40 years on it all seems ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 66 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-01.htm
... should not have. He acted in the most astonishing way and I think it fair to say he was pursuing a sort of disinformation policy all of his own without checking with anyone! It was most unfortunate! He was removed!" ' (p . 173) The 'Walter Mitty' theme was run through the House of Commons by Tory MP's Anthony Nelson and Rupert Allason (Hansard 1 February '90 columns 459 and 460); and in print by the BBC's John Ware in the Spectator ( 'The Secret World of Walter Mitty' [sic] 24 March '90). In this astonishing article Ware repeats and expands slightly the snippets about Wallace's parachuting activities he published first ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-10.htm
