[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] – now available on T-shirts! – is; Question consensus reality. Well, amen to that. However, the bit of “consensus reality” – and Banner really means consensus his tory – which seems to be getting questioned most in the California of Mr Banner, is the existence of the Holocaust. Critique is slowly becoming a “Holocaust […]
[…] shown to be under Soviet control through Lord Rothschild” (notice the “it can be shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” s tory which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s […]
[…] thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, this essay takes up the s tory where my first article left off — the aftermath of the 1983 election. The period under review is a short one, and because the split that […]
Labour Party PLC David Osler Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, £15.99, 2002 Colin Challen MP Having written a his tory of Conservative Party funding, (1) I had been wondering when somebody would get round to doing a similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks […]
[…] he may pick up as a junior Minister, could filter back to friends or contacts against whom there is a legitimate question mark.’ (Heath fired ‘Soviet stooge’ Tory’, Peter Day, The Observer 26 May 2002) In his comment on this Bethell resisted the temptation to point that it was Jellicoe who was the ‘risk’, […]
[…] first part this is worth getting. £4.20, cheque payable to ‘Greenwich Branch Nalgo’ to: Basement, Borough Treasurers Department, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London SE 18 Social Science His tory Vol 7 Spring 1983 (Sage Publishing, London) The entire issue is devoted to essays on The American Corporate Network, edited by the distinguished American ‘elite sociologist’ […]
