[…] mainly on the paraphernalia, research and minutiae of a big libel trial leaving in their wake more loose ends than a Gordian knot. Aitken had a classic Tory background. Eton/Oxford, inherited Beaverbrook wealth, writing speeches for Selwyn Lloyd (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) at 19 etc. He was also a libertarian, calling for drugs […]
[…] helped organise a party at the British embassy in Washington to honour the BAP – the Project newsletter reporting the event called the New Labour election vic tory the ‘Big Swing to the BAP’ – Wolfowitz was one of the guest speakers. Naughtie’s opposite number on the US advisory board is now deputy to […]
[…] Minister. An internal security regime is being bureaucratically pre-fixed for a new Prime Minister. This means that it is going to be hard to unravel by any Tory successor. It is an approach that caps a wider shift to intelligence-based policing in which the subjects of the intelligence-gathering are ourselves, our dissidents and our […]
[…] a tactic emerged ‘when several of us went to the Home Office weeks before the strike began’ (Sunday Times November 25) Met. police on picket duty used Tory Party clubs as temporary police stations. (letter in Leveller Supplement No 2, December 1984) (b) and public order Met. Police ‘exceeded their powers’ in arresting people […]
[…] CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS s tory inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a significant step for the […]
[…] federalism, coalitions and community. That club has perhaps eighteen months more in the sun at most (the cleverest will do a David Freud and switch to the Tory Party) and is then set to be replaced by their Tory equivalents. They are ageing, they have failed and been seen to fail in their analyses; […]
[…] group, to transport arms and supplies to Unita. (British Intelligence and Covert Action p193). When Savimbi visited Britain in 1980, Lonrho paid for expensive receptions hosted by Tory MP Edward Du Cann, a Lonrho director, at which Savimbi met Tory MPs. Unita’s links to South Africa, a source of arms and finance, are well […]
Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99 After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale than … Read more
[…] matters — except Mrs Thatcher. The result is a fascinating account of how a tiny group of people, with a handful of elementary, core ideas, captured the Tory Party — and its attendant media. Much of the book is directly sourced to interviews with key individuals of the period, and even the bits attributed […]
[…] experience in 1974 should have been enough. But things are more desperate now and those who took the decision set their minds on the rewards which vic tory would give them, for this victory would open the way to a more total onslaught on the entire working class and the trade unions – the […]
