Arty McBain is a former Conservative Party official. Although student protest was a problem for the Heath government, the hardball strategy of FCS in the eighties neutralised NUS as a campaigning force against Mrs T. NUS itself was made the issue and it was thrown onto the defensive. If it has forgotten the lessons it […]
Arty McBain is a former Conservative Party official who has recently returned from an advising a foreign centre-right movement. What on Earth is going on at The Times? We have sat uneasily as we read its equivocation about the Sri Lankan people’s final victory over the the world’s most sadistic communist rebellion after a 26 […]
Arty McBain is a former Conservative Party official. It is claimed that 250,000 marchers took part in Saturday’s TUC march to Hyde Park. Maybe. High numbers are notoriously difficult to estimate correctly, especially when it is in the interests of those doing so – the TUC and the police – for them to be high. […]