The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt Richard Webster Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005, £25 This is an account of the various child abuse and satanic abuse cases that developed across the UK from the mid ’80s onwards. At the phenomenon’s peak, around 1995, many police forces were carrying … Read more
[…] lost his second general election, this time to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any […]
[…] present orientation of a group which used to be devoted to the propagation of (first) the Empire and then the Commonwealth. “In the longer sweep of his tory we have to understand that the basic supposition of our national policy towards the European mainland has been transformed since 1945. For four centuries we secured […]
[…] handle properly in the time he had or Routledge doesn’t quite take it seriously. The important part of Neave’s career began with his organising Mrs Thatcher’s vic tory over Edward Heath in the 1975 contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party; the bit before that is neither here nor there. Yet that pre-1975 […]
An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation David Edgerton Macmillan, London, 1991, £14.99. Short (130 pages), elegant assault on the thesis of ‘the declinist’ tendency in British history, now associated chiefly with Corelli Barnet and Martin Weiner, who have argued that science and technology failed to penetrate British (but essentially English) culture. By looking … Read more
[…] for the Successor Generation is — only time will tell. But it is certainly proving rather indigestible to the British media. By any standards a major s tory, Tom Easton’s piece on BAP (in Lobster 33) found its way only into three snippets in the Guardian diary in August, and a gossip piece in […]
Al Martin Pray, Montana: National Liberty Press, 2001, $14.95, ISBN 0-97-10042-0-X Alexander ‘Al’ Martin is a retired Lt. Commander in the US Navy, a former member of the Office of Naval Intelligence and a middle-ranking player in the thicket of scandals known as Iran-Contra. This might be the most startling book written about post-war American … Read more
[…] Also mentioned in dispatches is Con Coughlin, the new foreign editor of The Daily Telegraph. In his days on The Sunday Telegraph Coughlin falsely attributed a s tory about the son of Colonel Gadaffi to a ‘British banking official’ when it had been given to him by officers of MI6. In the course of […]
Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
