[…] that I 13 14 See for example . 15 Chinese dumping is discussed here: . wonder if there isn’t another explanation, such as the Chinese bribing the Tory Party. Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail was honest enough to recognise some of what is happening in his column on 1 April, ‘We’ve sold our […]
[PDF file]: […] Britain to embark on its own independent journey to socialism? A full assessment of the possibilities of Lexit needs to start with a little bit of his tory, taking us back to the late 1950s. Then, as now, the British Left was composed of a wide range of organisations, traditions and opinions. A significant […]
[PDF file]: The Oyston Files Andrew Rosthorn Darwen, Lancashire: Red Sea Books, 2021, £16.99, h/b Nick Must At a macro level, this is a fairly simple s tory: Owen Oyston, a multi-millionaire supporter of the Labour Party,1 was subject to a politically motivated smear campaign that lasted nearly two decades. Andrew Rosthorn identifies the three main […]
[PDF file]: […] the crash of 2008 – these are have been discussed in dozens of books. Instead I want to set out the older and specifically British back s tory, both economic and political. The crash of 2008 did not appear out of the blue. Yes, some of the key factors, notably the use of computers […]
[…] hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) His tory tells us that Crozier and the cold warriors were wrong: since the demise of the Soviet Union no evidence has come to light supporting their view […]
[PDF file]: […] intelligence world are dead. Grauniadia Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts s tory, pointing out its absurd anti-Putin bias.12 I’ve said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we know of the way the American […]
[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic his tory Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches […]
[PDF file]: […] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]
[PDF file]: […] Democratic Unionist Party. This originated from the ‘Constitutional Research Council’ (CRC), which appeared to exist without a constitution and only one named individual in charge: a failed Tory candidate based in Scotland. The CRC were actually fined £6,0002 (which is less than 1.5% of the original sum) for not properly declaring this donation. The […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of lauda tory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s […]
