I think one of them was a Scottish MP as well. According to one reviewer at Amazon (I could not find any scholarly reviews), the "Secret Elite" is the Milner g

I think one of them was a Scottish MP as well. According to one reviewer at Amazon (I could not find any scholarly reviews), the "Secret Elite" is the Milner group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_movement), which apparently published a newsletter. That being said, non-professional-historians are capable of producing good history (for example, see Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. I wouldn't discount it for the authors' qualifications alone. On the other, other hand, everything about it is setting off my "crackpot" sensor, so I won't be the one trying to figure it out.