[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]
[PDF file]: […] Covid virus as the enemy plays up to the emotional attachment many Britons have for him. But the sober-minded electorate decided in 1945 that that PR savvy Conservative wartime Prime Minister had outlived his usefulness and chucked him out. Quite why Labour has failed to remind the electorate of this bit of history – […]
[PDF file]: […] excessively high exchange rate.’ – Wynne Godley, The Observer (Business) 23 August 1998. By the time Labour took office Brown and Blair had promised to toe the conservative line on economic policy: no income tax rises, no increased public spending, no attempts to use government to direct the economy; and no reacquisition of the […]
[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]
[PDF file]: […] discussed the attitude of the UK government toward joining the EEC on 15 October. Lemass thought a Labour government would be harder to deal with than a Conservative. Kennedy thought Labour would do more to get the UK into EEC. The US view was that Wilson would be more positive about Europe than Gaitskell. […]
[PDF file]: […] in the Reichsnahrstand. 5 A member of Gesellschaft Boden und Gesundheit, von Barsewisch was the daughter of a Luftwaffe general. She had been a member of the conservative Deutschnationale Volkspartei in the 1920s, before joining various Nazi organisations during the Third Reich, and writing a number of articles on race. 6 England in September […]
[PDF file]: Is there a ‘political class’? Scott Newton It has become fashionable to argue that Britain is in the grip of its own ‘political class’. Most recently the idea has been promulgated by Peter Oborne, in his 2007 book, The Triumph of the Political Class. I have been sceptical about this, remembering the dominance of Oxbridge-educated […]
[PDF file]: […] left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]
[PDF file]: […] of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but no newspaper would handle my friend Andy Chapman’s story about Chris More hacking phones inside a Manchester Conservative club, Howard Foster hushed me: ‘Just accept that Chris More is the Ultimate Hacker. Beyond your wildest imagination. He hacked a cabinet minister.’ As soon as […]
