Views
Stone's tenure at Oxford was not without incident, largely based around his political views, which were considered to be highly conservative, in the left wing climate of Oxford. Petronella Wyatt wrote that Stone "loathed the place as petty and provincial, and for its adherence to the Marxist-determinist view of history." He published a regular column in the Sunday Times between 1987 and 1992, and helped comment for many news services, including the BBC, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Wall Street Journal.
During this same time Stone also became Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor on Europe, as well as her speech writer.
Stone's wife was a leading member of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, a conservative contrarian organization not affiliated with Helsinki Watch.
He is also known for denying the 1915 Armenian Genocide: for example, in 2004 he wrote from Ankara to the Times Literary Supplement to report "Armenian nationalist claims that a 'genocide' as classically defined had taken place".
In 2009, he argued, together with Pat Buchanan and Nigel Knight, for the proposition that "Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world" .
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