[…] the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see The Tory Right Between the Wars in Lobster 15) the vast majority of those companies are from the domestic manufacturing sector of the British economy. The report (The […]
[…] the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within it there is a short his tory of British League of Empire Loyalists, a rather important group on the British post-war right, about which there is almost no current published material. Here, extracted […]
[…] a digest of research into the British right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunc tory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes who wandered […]
[…] outgrowth of Thatcher’s; a Stalinism complete with Orwell’s endless war, obsessed with the enemy within – the idea of enfranchising the working class. Blair’s McKinsey-trained hordes accelerated Tory transformation of public service to private profit. New Labour abrogated the responsibilities of democratic government, leaving even the waging of war to private enterprises who profit […]
The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]
[…] Thatcher and what she could do for him. On 11 June 1987, both Wyatt and Murdoch were at a party at Cliveden to celebrate Thatcher’s election vic tory. ‘When Ken Livingstone appeared on TV to blame Labour’s defeat on “the dreadful lies and smears of the media”, Rupert cried out, “That’s me!” and was […]
[…] This dominant alliance was so well entrenched that it was able to survive the financial crisis of 1931 by making only tactical adjustments to the liberal trajec tory of policy. Departing from the gold standard and adopted a floating exchange rate permitted the pursuit of a ‘cheap money’ policy based on a low bank […]
[…] long – far too long for publication – letter from me to the Spectator on 27 March 1990. Here are two sections from that. Here the s tory is much more complicated than Ware would have us believe. I was working on the Wallace story, as a researcher to Channel 4 News’ Robert Parker, […]
[…] and disintegration of these Trotskyist sects as the demise of any credible left opposition to Thatcherism. Hitchens actually describes the 1990s as the first time in his tory that a Marcusian society without credible opposition came into existence.(2)It was in this context that he says, quite candidly, that he decided to join the winning […]
[…] It appears to be the central strategy of Searchlight to attach one of these labels to everyone they perceive to be right of the centre of the Tory Party. This tactic really came into its own in the Soviet bloc in the post-war period. Part of the rationale for holding onto its Eastern European […]
