Bruce Anderson - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 12:59, 20 March 2018

2018-03-20T12:59:11Z

Tom Griffin: /* Early Life */

2010-12-31T14:54:53Z

Early Life

David at 11:24, 31 December 2010

2010-12-31T11:24:55Z

Steven Harkins: /* On Torture */

2010-12-30T13:26:48Z

On Torture

Steven Harkins: /* David Cameron */

2010-12-30T13:24:05Z

David Cameron

Melissa Jones: /* On Islam */

2010-09-06T16:41:30Z

On Islam

Tom Griffin: Early life

2010-09-06T14:57:27Z

Early life

Tom Griffin: started a page

2010-04-16T21:11:57Z

started a page

New page

[[Bruce Anderson]] is a British journalist.

According to biographers Francis Elliot and James Hanning, it may have been Anderson who recommended the young [[David Cameron]] to Prime Minister [[John Major]] as part of his question time team in the early 1990s.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.91.</ref> Anderson holidayed with Cameron and his Conservative Central Office colleague [[Angie Bray]] in the summer of 1992.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.112.</ref> After Cameron became a Conservative front-bencher in July 2003, Anderson tipped him in ''The Spectator'' as a fuutre Prime Minister.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.219.</ref>

==On Islam==
Anderson attended the [[Post-Christian Europe and Resurgent Islam conference]] in Vienna in May-June 2008.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>

In and ''Independent'' article on the event, he wrote:
::Now that the neo-conservative attempt to reconstruct the Middle East has failed, containment and crisis management are the only options. Although this will be harder than it was during the Cold War, the attempt we must try and cultural neurasthenia is of little help. Yet one conclusion is obvious. For much of its history, Vienna was the capital and fortress of the Ostmark: the frontier of western civilisation. Today, the whole of Europe is in the Ostmark.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>

==On Torture==
Anderson defended the use of torture in a February 2010 ''Independent'' article:

::I prepared to receive incoming fire. It came, in the form of a devilish intellectual challenge. "Let's take your hypothesis a bit further. We have captured a terrorist, but he is a hardened character. We cannot be certain that he will crack in time. We have also captured his wife and children".

::After much agonising, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one answer to Sydney's question. Torture the wife and children. It is a disgusting idea. It is almost a tragedy that we even have to discuss it, let alone think of acting upon it. But there is nothing to be gained from refusing to face facts, in the way that the Master of the Rolls, [[Lord Neuburger]], did last week. His Lordship wrapped himself in a cloak of self-righteousness, traduced an entire security service, showed no understanding of the courage which its officers routinely display: no understanding, indeed, of anything beyond courtroom niceties.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-not-only-have-a-right-to-use-torture-we-have-a-duty-1899555.html Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty], The Independent, 15 February 2010.</ref>

The ''Guardian'''s Henry Porter wrote of Anderson's piece:
::In the final analysis, I am glad it was published because it exposes Anderson for what he is. He says there is a threat to civilisation. Indeed there is. It comes from people who are prepared to sanction the use of torture.<ref>Henry Porter, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/feb/15/pro-torture-human-rights Pro-torture, anti-civilisation], guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2010.</ref>

==Notes==
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 ==Early Life==
-Anderson was educated at [[Campbell College]] in Northern Ireland. Like [[Paul Bew]], of whom he was a contemporary at both institutions, he took part in the [[People's Democracy]] civil rights march that was attacked at Burntollet in 1969.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.311.</ref>
+Anderson was educated at [[Campbell College]] in Northern Ireland and at Cambridge. Like [[Paul Bew]], of whom he was a contemporary at both institutions, he took part in the [[People's Democracy]] civil rights march that was attacked at Burntollet in 1969.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.311.</ref>
 ==David Cameron==

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 ==David Cameron==
 According to biographers Francis Elliot and James Hanning, it may have been Anderson who recommended the young [[David Cameron]] to Prime Minister [[John Major]] as part of his question time team in the early 1990s.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.91.</ref> Anderson holidayed with Cameron and his Conservative Central Office colleague [[Angie Bray]] in the summer of 1992.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.112.</ref> After Cameron became a Conservative front-bencher in July 2003, Anderson tipped him in ''The Spectator'' as a future Prime Minister.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.219.</ref> Anderson has also described himself as a 'family friend' of the Cameron's.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4807978/Ivan-Cameron-When-love-triumphs-over-pain.html Ivan Cameron - When love triumphs over pain], ''The Telegraph'', 25-February-2009</ref>
+==Views==
-==On Islam==
+===On Islam===
 Anderson attended the [[Post-Christian Europe and Resurgent Islam conference]] in Vienna in May-June 2008.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>
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 ::Now that the neo-conservative attempt to reconstruct the Middle East has failed, containment and crisis management are the only options. Although this will be harder than it was during the Cold War, the attempt we must try and cultural neurasthenia is of little help. Yet one conclusion is obvious. For much of its history, Vienna was the capital and fortress of the Ostmark: the frontier of western civilisation. Today, the whole of Europe is in the Ostmark.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>
-==On Torture==
+===On Torture===
 Anderson defended the use of torture in a February 2010 ''Independent'' article:
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 ::In the final analysis, I am glad it was published because it exposes Anderson for what he is. He says there is a threat to civilisation. Indeed there is. It comes from people who are prepared to sanction the use of torture.<ref>Henry Porter, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/feb/15/pro-torture-human-rights Pro-torture, anti-civilisation], guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2010.</ref>
-==On Welfare Reform==
+===On Welfare Reform===
 In a December 2010 article in ''The Telegraph'', Anderson argued that:

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 ==David Cameron==
-According to biographers Francis Elliot and James Hanning, it may have been Anderson who recommended the young [[David Cameron]] to Prime Minister [[John Major]] as part of his question time team in the early 1990s.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.91.</ref> Anderson holidayed with Cameron and his Conservative Central Office colleague [[Angie Bray]] in the summer of 1992.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.112.</ref> After Cameron became a Conservative front-bencher in July 2003, Anderson tipped him in ''The Spectator'' as a future Prime Minister.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.219.</ref>
+According to biographers Francis Elliot and James Hanning, it may have been Anderson who recommended the young [[David Cameron]] to Prime Minister [[John Major]] as part of his question time team in the early 1990s.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.91.</ref> Anderson holidayed with Cameron and his Conservative Central Office colleague [[Angie Bray]] in the summer of 1992.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.112.</ref> After Cameron became a Conservative front-bencher in July 2003, Anderson tipped him in ''The Spectator'' as a future Prime Minister.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.219.</ref> Anderson has also described himself as a 'family friend' of the Cameron's.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4807978/Ivan-Cameron-When-love-triumphs-over-pain.html Ivan Cameron - When love triumphs over pain], ''The Telegraph'', 25-February-2009</ref>
 ==On Islam==

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 The ''Guardian'''s Henry Porter wrote of Anderson's piece:
 ::In the final analysis, I am glad it was published because it exposes Anderson for what he is. He says there is a threat to civilisation. Indeed there is. It comes from people who are prepared to sanction the use of torture.<ref>Henry Porter, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/feb/15/pro-torture-human-rights Pro-torture, anti-civilisation], guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2010.</ref>
 ==Notes==

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 Anderson attended the [[Post-Christian Europe and Resurgent Islam conference]] in Vienna in May-June 2008.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>
-In and ''Independent'' article on the event, he wrote:
+In an ''Independent'' article on the event, he wrote:
 ::Now that the neo-conservative attempt to reconstruct the Middle East has failed, containment and crisis management are the only options. Although this will be harder than it was during the Cold War, the attempt we must try and cultural neurasthenia is of little help. Yet one conclusion is obvious. For much of its history, Vienna was the capital and fortress of the Ostmark: the frontier of western civilisation. Today, the whole of Europe is in the Ostmark.<ref>Bruce Anderson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-are-destroying-the-very-values-which-could-save-us-in-our-battle-against-islam-838209.html Bruce Anderson: We are destroying the very values which could save us in our battle against Islam], Independent, 2 June 2008.</ref>

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 [[Bruce Anderson]] is a British journalist.
-According to biographers Francis  Elliot and James Hanning, it may have been Anderson who recommended the young [[David Cameron]] to Prime Minister [[John Major]] as part of his question time team in the early 1990s.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.91.</ref> Anderson holidayed with Cameron and his Conservative Central Office colleague [[Angie Bray]] in the summer of 1992.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.112.</ref> After Cameron became a Conservative front-bencher in July 2003, Anderson tipped him in ''The Spectator'' as a fuutre Prime Minister.<ref>Francis Elliott & James Hanning, Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, 2009, p.219.</ref>
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 ==On Islam==
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-[[Category: Journalists|Anderson, Bruce]]
+[[Category:Old Campbellians|Bew, Paul]][[Category: Journalists|Anderson, Bruce]]