Exile & Return Mattiya Kambona Palace of Lies Theodore Dalrymple Moral Combat M R D Foot a Veiled Threat Christie Davies

The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought Exile & Return Moral Combat Ladies Without Mattiya Kambona M R D Foot Lamps Jane Kelly Palace of Lies A Veiled Threat Sea Blindness Theodore Dalrymple Christie Davies John Parfitt Autumn 2010 £4.99 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 4 Exile and Return 18 Twelve Good Men and True? Mattiya Kambona Nigel Jarrett 6 Ladies without Lamps 20 A Curriculum of Errors Jane Kelly Frank Ellis 7 Palace of Lies 22 Real Rebels on the Right Theodore Dalrymple Nigel Jones 9 A Veiled Threat 24 American Funny Money Christie Davies Russell Lewis 11 Cooking up a Storm 26 650 Hands in the Till Brian Ridley Richard Packer 13 Will the Germans set us Free? 29 Writing for Frankie Howerd Mark Griffith Marc Blake 15 Sea Blindness John Parfitt Columns Arts & Books 38 M R D Foot 28 BBC Watch on Michael Burleigh 30 Conservative Classic — 40 39 Nigel Jones When William Came, Saki on Hugh Trevor-Roper 33 Roy Kerridge 40 Patricia Lança 34 Eternal Life on Generational Conflict Peter Mullen 42 Will Robinson 35 Reputations — 29 on Lord Denning The Queen Mother 43 Michael St John Parker on de Tocqueville 45 Jan Maciag 27 Letters on Lost Cities 46 Frank Ellis on Waziristan 47 Alistair Miller on Positive Thinking 48 Anthony Daniels on Democratic Despotism 50 John Constable on an Angling Family 52 Film: Please Give Jane Kelly 53 Art: Andrew Wilton on Portraits 55 Music: Gerald Place on Shakespeare’s Songs 57 In Short Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Roger Scruton Lord Charles Cecil, Myles Harris, Mark Baillie, Christie Davies, Literary Editor: Ian Crowther 33 Canonbury Park South, London N1 2JW Tel: 020 7226 7791 Fax: 020 7354 0383 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.co.uk avid Cameron is a descendant of King William IV entry. Neither has there been any hint of reforming the and the actress Dorothea Jordan. Like Cameron scandalous EU arrest warrant, or a similar agreement with Dthe king had a certain informality of style. the US, which allow both powers to seize our citizens for Hearing that the First Reform Bill of 1831 ridding Britain trial purely on the flourish of a pen. of its rotten boroughs was to be voted down in the House Nor has that elephant in the room, immigration, been of Commons he insisted on being driven immediately to addressed. The UN Convention on Human Rights has The Lords ‘in a hackney carriage if necessary’. There, by resulted in Britain having a revolving door immigration entering the chamber wearing his crown, he caused the policy, with lawyers taking fat fees to ensure each arrival automatic prorogation of Parliament. The Act was passed stays as long as possible and goes before courts whose in the next Parliament. decisions frequently border on the hallucinatory. To opt William lived at a time when the American War of out of the Convention would be the political equivalent Independence had underlined the power of the free of the US Declaration of Independence. By definition the citizen, and while Britain fumbled her way toward coalition has no mandate for this, and mass migration will democracy, most of Europe was retreating from it, but continue. This is perhaps why The Guardian in ‘Cameron, William understood its importance. Man of Grace’ described him as far better than either Today’s rotten boroughs are further afield than Old Brown or Blair to promote the type of ‘consensus’ politics Sarum, the uninhabited hill in Wiltshire which sent two in which the left so fervently believes. MPs to Parliament. The new Sarums are in Brussels, What else one of the rotten boroughs, the EU, has in mind Washington, Beijing and the digital entrails of companies for us is described in this issue by Theodore Dalrymple in like Goldman Sachs, which, despite breast beating ‘The Palace of Lies’. He writes: ‘the Secretary-General by politicians, has escaped virtually scott free from of the European Union, Juan Manuel Barroso, was once impoverishing a generation. People we have never elected asked by a journalist what the European project actually increasingly rule our lives, tax us, buy up our industries, was. The former leftist said that it was the creation of an tell us who we may admit to live here, and, even worse, empire. Subsequently every effort was made to expunge have acquired the right to seize our citizens and carry this remark from the historical record.’ Mark Griffith in them off them for trial in their own countries. a more hopeful mood tells how intelligent Germans have Just as William IV was faced with the question ‘Who woken up to the threat posed by the modern, electronically governs Britain?’ so Cameron must decide if we are to be tentacled state in ‘Will Germany set us Free?’ but John an independent state. Is he up to the job? There is little Parfitt in ‘Sea Blindness’ sorrows over the laying up evidence of it. of our great mercantile fleet and how vulnerable it will After a visit to Washington he flew to Istanbul to make us to countries like China. There are more personal reaffirm US policy in the region: Turkish entry into the ways to lose your freedom. Jane Kelly in ‘Ladies Without EU. This was despite his promise to the British electorate Lamps’ describes the loss of dignity that attends being that he would not agree to major changes to the EU nursed in an NHS hospital, while Christie Davies in ‘A without a UK referendum. If the entry of 90 million Veiled Threat’ peeps behind the burka. Finally in ‘Coming people from a non European country to the EU is not a Home’, Mattiya Kambona describes his midnight arrest major change to the EU what is? Tories might shrug this and ten years in a Tanzanian prison without trial and his off as a mere gesture. France and Germany, they chuckle subsequent return to his homeland after 30 years of exile. knowingly, will never agree to Turkish entry, but wait ten Only those who have lost their freedom can know its years when, with catastrophically falling birth rates and sweet taste. We in Britain are tossing it away. desperate for workers, Italy, Germany, plus a Muslim dominated Holland, outvote the French on Turkish The Salisbury Review — Autumn, 2010 3 Exile and Return Mattiya Kambona (return to Contents Page) Editorial note: The Salisbury Review has had a The British government which had so painstakingly long connection with the Kambona family and three drawn up our constitution, which provided for a multi- brothers have now written for it. Oscar Kambona was party state, should be concerned. Otini was working a prominent Government Minister in the sixties but as a journalist and I was employed in the Ministry of resigned in 1967 in protest at the introduction of the Industry and Power. I am a Cambridge graduate so we one party state and the brutal collectivization of the thought perhaps we were safe. countryside. He left Tanzania for a 25 year exile in However late at night when I was working at home, I Britain and terrible reprisals were taken against his become aware of a tremendous commotion in the street family and friends. (v SR vol 3 No 4, Vol 9 No 4, Vol outside. There seemed to be police cars everywhere. 12 No 2, Vol 23 No 2, Vol 26 No 4) Then came the dreaded knock on the door. The police searched my home for several hours, then told me hen President Julius Nyerere’s dictatorship to accompany them to Ukanga prison. I thought of Tanzania finally came to an end in 1998, that, perhaps, was some mistake as I was not being Wmy close relatives gradually became more accused of any crime, but it was to be more than ten at ease when they spoke to me on the telephone. I had years before I saw the outside world again. On that been living in exile in Britain for more than thirty years, dreadful night, I realized that my brother Otini had also and during that time conversations with people ‘back been arrested, although I was not able to talk to him; home’ had necessarily been very guarded. Then one indeed during the following years when Tanzania was day I was somewhat surprised when someone asked developing into a completely inefficient state where me, ‘When are you coming home?’ nothing worked, my brother and I, while being shunted During the dictatorship I had spent more than ten around various prisons from time to time, were very years in prison (without ever having been accused of efficiently kept apart for the whole of our incarceration. any crime) so I could not understand why my people Otini was married to a girl from Martinique and had seemed so keen for me to return to a place which two small children, my wife was from the Gambia could be so dangerous. Had my relatives become and I had a three-month-old daughter. Both families Government agents? Cautiously I contacted some were immediately expelled and our properties were friends who assured me that it would be safe for me to expropriated. It was to be ten years before we saw return. ‘Come back’, said one, ‘the dark days are gone. anything of them again. So I decided to visit my country to ‘test the waters’. In 1978, we were just as suddenly and inexplicably In 1968 my brother Otini and I had had to consider released — probably through the intervention of escaping from Tanzania, as we had realised that our Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand, who by a situations were precarious.

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