[PDF file]: Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs) Simon Matthews Since late summer 2020, it has looked as if the impact of an incompetently managed mass pandemic and a ludicrously self-inflicted ‘hard’ Brexit (think here up to 85,000 dead, shortages of food and medicine, the Police losing control of the streets, […]
[PDF file]: […] insights into that process, insights expressed with varying degrees of disgust. Max Boot being so effected as to decide that he can no longer call himself a conservative at all. Coming from the right they are all the more successful in conveying the enormity of the Trump phenomenon and deserve to be read by […]
[…] (controlling key committees of Westminster and assisting the Whips of both Houses and both Parties) are no longer retired SIS officers. Nor do they now retire into Conservative Central Office, or become Conservative Office agents in the constituencies. In addition, the (mainly Conservative) hereditaries have been booted out of the House of Lords. These […]
[…] the BMA), trade unions and religious movements or ‘cults’ are also included, wherever their activities have some involvement in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another […]
[…] Shawcross – who subsequently defected to the Conservatives and embarked on a business career which at this stage put him in the Shell boardroom – arranged with Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan a payment to IRIS of £40,000, worth about £500,000 today.(8) Lord Shawcross revealed that IRIS was already getting money from major companies […]
[…] found; uphold human rights, most important of which are liberty, freedom of religious beliefs, social justice, and the self-determination of all peoples’.(153) And in fact, some genuinely conservative organisations that have affiliated with WACL promote a relatively moderate form of anti-communism and probably accept this disingenuous description as an accurate summary of their own […]
[…] fell by 957,000. (6) All this made for a large constituency, based at the popular and the political level on a fusion between the pre-1914 Liberal and Conservative parties, in favour of a liberal, anti-inflationary and anti-labour economic policy, which the Establishment used to construct a hegemonic bloc which dominated British politics up to […]
[…] but never traditional socialists or ‘nationalists’ of any hue. I recall Paddy Ashdown and Vincent Gable at early seminars and there brief flirtations with one or two Conservative neo-liberal intellectuals. Like the early IEA and Adam Smith Institute in its time, it was up for grabs by either main political party for a brief […]
[…] (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings (BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party). (7) Demos brought over several free-market ideologues including Philip Bobbitt (LBJ’s nephew). He was Reagan’s legal counsel from 1980-81, on the Select Committee/cover-up on Iran/Contra […]
Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? […]
