Policy Search
Policy Search was a small think tank based in 14 Tufton Street in Westminster in the late 1980s. It provided a base for Christopher Monckton in 1987 and according to Monckton was associated with Sir Alfred Sherman and a number of others.[1] 14 Tufton Street is a building occupied in 2009 by Diocese in Europe.
HIV/AIDS
Monckton intervened in the debate about HIV/AIDs in the 1980s, writing an extensive report on the subject in 1987 for a little known group called Policy Search, with a preface by Dr. John Seale.[2] In an 'author's note' Monckton thanked Sir Alfred Sherman, Nigel Morgan, Melanie Walsh, Hilary West and Sergeant Graham Barton of Policy Search, who 'gave me an office at 14 Tufton Street, SW1 and a great deal of helpful advice and support'.[3] the note also thanks 'those who have read the manuscript and have made constructive comments': George Bunton, formerly a surgeon at University College Hospital, Dr. Jonathan de Pass, Andrew Roberts, Robert Fleming Securities Ltd, Dr Georges Kaye Cromwell Hospital, Dr. David O'Connell, Graham Webster-Gardiner, Conservative Family Campaign, Andrew Lownie, John Farquharson and Co..[4]
In it he advocated 'mandatory annual screening' for everyone aged 13-65[5], the introduction of an officially issued but voluntary 'AIDS-FREE card' and 'in extreme cases' the 'quarantining of AIDS carriers... if the figures from the national tests demonstrated that it was essential'.[6] Publicity on HIV and AIDS should be 'redrafted to include at least a modicum of morality', wrote Monckton.[7]
Years later Monckton reminisced:
- He would have averted the Aids epidemic (having produced 'probably the first working model for the transmission of this particular kind of retrovirus in the UK', he insisted to the cabinet on compulsory testing of adults, legally enforced 'restricted association' for people who were HIV positive, but nothing was done). 'Lobby groups howled. The homosexual lobby said we know you, you're a Catholic, you don't like queers.'[8]
