[…] replaced as editor in 1998 by Zac Goldsmith, son of Sir James and currently Conservative parliamentary candidate for Richmond-upon-Thames and a close confidante and advisor of David Cameron. Goldsmith’s legacy A decade after his death it is interesting to reflect on the legacy of Sir James Goldsmith. He campaigned successfully in 1975-1979 for the […]
[…] British helps explain both why the Conservatives were some 5-8 points ahead of the polls by the Spring of 2007 and why they remain equally suspicious of Cameron. Women, who have a very much finer sense of what is real and what is not than many male intellectuals, were disproportionately polling for Cameron if […]
[…] from “one of our researchers on the Colin Wallace affair.” Whatever the truth actually is, Mr Wilkinson isn’t telling it. Robin Ramsay, June 21 1988 A Carronbank Cameron Street Stonehaven9 June 1988Mr. Colin Wallace 14 Dalloway Road Arundel West Sussex BN18 9HW Dear Mr. Wallace,I understand from the University that you have lodged a […]
Ken Hollings London: Strange Attractor Press, 2008, p/b, £11.99 This is a fascinating book but I found it terribly hard to write about. Looking for the opening thought to kick-start this I read again the introduction by Erik Davis.(9) He writes: ‘Hollings has collected together a mass of real signs and symptoms drawn from a […]
[…] to ask but, as psychotherapists will tell you, recognising the problem is necessary before a solution is available…..and it does raise specific questions as to whether David Cameron will do for politics what Margaret Thatcher did for economics, or whether he will simply try to work the system he has inherited a little better. […]
[…] Philip Goulds principal New Labour associate in the hocus-pocus world of qualitative research. Remember that OLR is owned by the highly influential Lord Bell, and that David Cameron is likely to find focus group research just as handy in bypassing his activists as did Lord Kinnock and Tony Blair. The gong show It will […]
[…] Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran ‘two brains’ David Willetts on hand for a future Conservative cabinet. Already a powerful influence on David Cameron is Steve Hilton,() an early BAP recruit and a fellow trustee of the Citizenship Foundation with Maclay. Guardian news Leaving the comfort of her Guardian column, […]
[…] is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also a chapter on […]
[…] interest in eastern mysticism, rejection of contemporary sexual and social arrangements, experimenting with drugs, fringe artistic endeavours, and the pursuit of novel technology. (6) Parsons’ second wife, Cameron, kept the torch burning in the style her deceased partner might have wished, maintaining a career on the fringes of Hollywood down to the 1980s: mixing […]
[…] of Robert Maddox, The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973, or the post-revisionist work of John Lewis Gaddis. D. Cameron Watt, ‘Intelligence and the Historian: A Comment on John Gaddis’s ‘Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins’, Diplomatic History, Vol.14 No.2, Spring 1990, p.200. This is the […]
