[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] values which keep these folk in thrall – capitalism and capitalist democracy. The Bilderberg Network would be a more apt title for a book charting the his tory of this glittering nexus and its detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the […]
[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]
[PDF file]: […] the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection – but they never found any evidence. This Golitsyn s tory raises the interesting question about what counts as being an informer or an agent. Say that on one 2 Miller was one of a number of […]
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the s tory of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which […]
