[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be an adequate explanation. Within days of the s tory tailing away Blair had sacked several members of his Cabinet, including Harriet Harman, one of his most devoted supporters. And as Blair’s team were battling to […]
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 […]
