[…] a campaign for re-armament. Speakers included the former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on […]
[…] from MI5, I presume – sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his s tory about anti-Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists who were trying […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] capable of voting. The manager never saw the forms again but all five residents ended up as proxy voters. One of them gave his vote to a Tory County Councillor who lives just three doors away. The manager has now contacted the police. Granny farming Lobster readers will be aware that this grotesque trail […]
[…] resistance which experience had taught him would otherwise take years to develop.’ (p. 239, emphasis added) Pergau The Pergau Dam affair revealed the shape of the new Tory corporatism. Companies fund the Tory Party; Tory government bribes (sorry: gives aid to) the Malasian government which gives orders to….. the British companies who give money […]
[…] quit over Fayed job’, The Guardian 10 April 2000; Robert Shrimsley,’Tory MP in Fayed row is to quit’, Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000; Philip Johnston. ‘How a Tory came to change his mind on Fayed’, Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000 Charles Wardle, ‘The Real Mohamed’, The Guardian 4 April 2000. Henry Porter was given […]
