[…] 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 […]
[…] Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic his tory? Or: does he understand economic politics? In any case, I would have been asking a question to which I knew the answer. Brown knows little of […]
[…] that respect’ (May 5th, 1993). It seems reasonable, ten years on, to add a footnote for the historians and, for others, a bit of analysis. The s tory is that Simon Haskel (later Lord Haskel), then Chair of the Labour Finance & Industry Group (LFIG), asked me to help out Geoff Mulgan. I had […]
[…] sharp pen-pictures of the politicians who have dominated the period. The author is one of the first historians to acknowledge the parapolitical dimension in modern British his tory, from the formation of the Special Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that […]
Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b. Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation of […]
[…] them and press reports of the speeches Neave made with Wallace’s material were shown on Channel 4 News. Despite being unable to find holes in his s tory some journalists remain suspicious of him. They accuse him of being ‘too professional’, or ‘too pat’, ‘too well rehearsed’ and so on. What they seem to […]
[…] has, apparently, marched on. So far there have been few reviews, and one of these (by M.R.D. Foot in The Times) snootily accuses Griffiths of revisionist his tory writing. Evidence now shows that a bigger than usually imagined section of MPs and Peers were willing to strike a deal with the Nazis in 1939/1940.(1) […]
[…] Tories have always declined to say where the money came from, it is extraordinary that their opponents never adopted some variant of LBJ’s pig-fucker strategy. The s tory goes that LBJ was discussing how to attack an opponent in an election early in his career. The opponent was a farmer, and LBJ said, ‘Let’s […]
