Robert Boothby, often known as Bob, later elevated to Baron Boothby in 1958, was a Tory politician and not a particularly successful one but I remember him always being on political programs in the 1960s [more…]
Some who may have inadvertently read some of my comments may have realised I have some strong opinions on many of the teams in the Premiere League. If you don’t like my opinions you are [more…]
Purists will argue that John Vassall was nothing to do with the Tories and in a sense they are right. John Vassall was a junior civil servant who spied for the Russians between 1954 and [more…]
Watching Bodybags making his first speech at Conference as leader I was reminded of a famous quote attributed to George Burns. “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”. [more…]
I had never heard of this one but on the face of it this was a case of a minister doing the honourable thing and resigning as a result of his civil servants screwing things [more…]
We have had a nuclear deterrent for 72 years or so. It may have deterred someone from dropping a nuclear bomb on us at some point but does it still deter anything. It has no [more…]
Reggie was one of the big beasts of the Tory Party in the 50s and 60s. He was another who was hovering around the leadership along with RAB Butler. Neither of them quite managed to [more…]
In a world of unrelenting gloom and incompetence, much of which I blame on socialism and all things left, may I be allowed to offer a few words of optimism. During my three quarters of [more…]
Quite possibly one of the most damaging events in the history of the Tory Party. Everything was going wrong for them, they seemed like a bunch of incompetents. From the great train robbery, spies in [more…]
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