About the Author
My name is Bernard Toolan and I first became aware that we had a problem back in 1967. I was 19 years old and had just finished my first year at Hull University.
Freddie Laker had just started his new airline that revolutionised air travel and I was booked on my first trip abroad. A months-long trip to Expo 67 in Montreal.
Before I left, David Steel had just introduced his bill to legalise abortion and the newspapers were all saying that a controversial private members bill could never succeed. When I got back, it had been passed without opposition from the Conservative Party.
About Party Politics
The silence of the so-called Conservative Party should have been a clue, but…
This page is being updated and it is not going well.
Wednesday February 11, 2026