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’ […]
[…] Thatcher’s rise was managed by Airey Neave, whose ‘intelligence connections’ even she acknowledges in the first volume of her memoirs; and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read […]
En route to their crushing general election vic tory in 2001 the Prime Minister and his colleagues found time for a private working breakfast with some of the big movers and shakers in UK corporate capitalism – Glaxo Smith Kline, HSBC, Unilever, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Centrica and many others – ‘to reduce […]
Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the quest for legitimacy Nigel Copsey Palgrave/Macmillan 2004, £47.50, h/b The Radical Right in Britain Alan Sykes Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005, £16.99, p/b Modern British fascism has been poorly served by academic research, especially when it comes to coverage of the last two decades. These books attempt to … Read more
[…] The fact that during the period she describes Wilson wasn’t at Oxford, matters not a jot. (Little’s fantasies are referred to by Chapman Pincher, see Inside S tory p. 29, and have appeared a number of times in Kenneth de Courcy’s Special Office Brief). The now defunct Foreign Affairs Publishing Company of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. […]
[…] it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole s tory. Hardly anything about Young’s political activities in the late sixties and seventies is included. Even with those omissions this is an interesting document. We tried to […]
Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher’s first election vic tory and the onset of the demented world as we know it in this country. No doubt books and TV programmes are being prepared. The most striking account of the first part of the Thatcher events is John Hoskyn’s Just In […]
[…] who had a girlfriend who was also Secretary of the Beaconsfield Constituency Labour Party and Blair finally got selected as a Labour bye-election candidate in a solid Tory seat, thus fleshing out his otherwise thin CV, meeting some important people (Foot, Healey etc) and making a small number of media appearances. The hunt now […]
