[…] 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 […]
Julian Amery Pre-war model Tory social imperialist who evoked enormous affection – even idolatry – in some quarters. Recent chair of the Pinay Circle. Laudatory obituaries in the House Magazine 7 October 1996, the Spectator 7 September 1996 and The Times 4 September 1996. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg (Obituary, Independent, 15 […]
[…] 1983). Details of court proceedings (T. 21 April 1983). Appeal rejected (G. 8th June 1983). Evidence that Bertl was maybe not so innocent, and had links with Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a […]
[…] them becoming ex-Labour Party members. More important, of course was not why Blair himself was a member of the Labour Party but how someone so obviously a Tory was able to become party leader and moreover transform Labour into a centre right party, into another, indeed, into the main British conservative party. The ‘New’ […]
[…] Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret his tory. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish League for European Freedom (SLEF). […]
[…] certainly has spent the time in the microfilm archives. But, for example, one index reference to North Sea oil? Garnett doesn’t know enough about British economic his tory (let alone parapolitics). But he’s not the first contemporary historian to have that blind spot, is he? It still surprises me that historians and political scientists […]
[…] simply have not had time to read it. It seems pretty clear from the comments of a number of the knowledgeable minority who have followed this s tory for the past few years that, for whatever reason, Scott and his team have not delivered the goods. Too many of the real issues never made […]
[…] a peace deal with Germany had been going on for a while. Involved in some of it had been the Duke of Windsor. His supporters in the Tory Party included the Imperial Policy Group, whose Secretary/ intelligence officer was Kenneth de Courcy. Just before the war de Courcy was running round Europe testing the […]
[…] Brigade’ was claiming responsibility for setting fire to a magistrate’s court in Epping. The Angry Brigade? That ‘Angry Brigade’? In May the Daily Mail ran a s tory about a fictitious ‘Gay Rights Action Movement’ which was threatening members of the House of Lords. (reported in Tribune 13 May 1988) But the most interesting, […]
