[PDF file]: […] Committee. Only kidding of course. The Commons Intelligence Select Committee is really just a parliamentary spittoon into which the intelligence agencies occasionally feel obliged to gob. Under Thatcher there was the dramatic rise of private intelligence agencies run by various of her admirers, Brian Crozier and the like, that operated alongside MI5. CND was […]
[PDF file]: […] the economically active state (except to save bankers)? Its senior figures are too young to remember how an industrial strategy was done before the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. Institutionally the Conservative Party hasn’t believed in an industrial strategy since 1979. The John Major government in the 1990s, mainly in the shape of the Chancellor […]
[PDF file]: […] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]
[PDF file]: […] letter he had written to the attorney-general in support of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, ‘Don’t let the buggers get you down’. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir’s 2012 […]
[PDF file]: […] . . . I’m also anti-German. Anti-all-Europeans actually Oh yes – if I had my way I’d form my own party far more right wing than Margaret Thatcher I’d bring back National Service, the Scaffold, Reflecting on the who’s who of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, one is struck by how out of his […]
[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]
[PDF file]: […] developed to oppose the monetary orthodoxy that was used to first hobble the Labour Government of the 1970s and then to crucify the UK economy when Margaret Thatcher gave the UK monetarism at full throttle. Although he wrote articles from time to time in the London Review of Books,5 the task of fully articulating […]
[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]
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[PDF file]: […] of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter […]
