[PDF file]: […] protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with the Qatada-Hamza-linked GIA. The s tory given to the authorised media by the vested intelligence agencies is that Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the new bin Laden, nicknamed ‘the uncatchable’ by French intelligence (Algeria […]
[…] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 trial and later last year, when he was runner-up […]
[…] MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
[PDF file]: […] market right: elected to Scarborough Town Council in 1950; a couple of failed tilts at Westminster before securing Cleveland in Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’ vic tory in ’59; losing the seat in 1964; returning – in a very close result – as MP for Brighouse and Spenborough in 1970; losing again in […]
[PDF file]: […] casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/ Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially […]
