I recall the associated kerfulffle but I never really took much interest in this story. The protagonists are the dog strangler (aka Michael Heseltine), Leon Brittan and Margaret Thatcher. At stake was the future of [more…]
In February 1944 Winston Churchill first used the term “special relationship”. He was describing the relationship between the USA and the UK. I have long wondered how special this relationship really is. Our initial relationship [more…]
The Jeffrey Archer affair was rather an odd one and it has been alleged that he took the rap while covering up for a colleague. He was an MP, left and wrote best selling books [more…]
This week’s rant concerns two possible ironies. The mid-terms in the USA are almost upon us or rather them. Now as usual the polls are indicating massive Democrat success and we all know how much [more…]
One of Maggie’s blue eyed boys. Yet again another sex scandal. Cecil was a cad. He was the Tory MP for Hertsmere from 1979 to 1992, then they gave him the ermine and he moved [more…]
To quote a certain newt-fancier named Leninspart “And I’ll tell you another PM who used to be a provincial mayor”. This of course refers to the much maligned Neville Chamberlain who had been Mayor of [more…]
Two ministers in Ted Heath’s government who featured in sex and drugs scandals. If only they had known what Ted was alleged to be up to. This was exposed by the News of the World [more…]
Having cast a critical eye over the Conference speech of one Bodybags I feel justice can only be served if I do the same to the leader of the Conservative Party making her pitch for [more…]
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…]
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