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... But after just two years he became disillusioned and resigned from MI5. Since then (1982) he has continued to work as an investigator, but describing himself as 'broadcaster and author' (this is his first book). His range of contacts-- listed in the Acknowledgements-- now include Capt. Fred Holroyd, Tam Dalyell MP, Duncan Campbell, Paul Foot, Mark Hollingsworth and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and we are offered, as evidence, 'a sensational expose of the security services'. Unfortunately, most of the book is a rehash of stories researched by others, and the rest is oddly ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-12.htm
... sub-section called IS9(WEA) attached to SHAEF, a section some called 'another secret army'. It included future Conservative MPs Maurice McMillan and Peter Baker. Shortly after the war Neave used his legal training at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and then spent a curious year with the Territorial version of IS9 (WEA) before becoming an MP. His record in Parliament was hardly impressive- perhaps he deliberately kept to the background. It appears though that his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of 'stopping' Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-05.htm
... the ascent of Wilson, was being monitored by IRD and its satellites, the Economic League, IRIS, Common Cause- and by Brian Crozier, who raised the alarm in the 1970 collection he edited, We Will Bury You..(73) Working the same seam- presumably for different sponsors- was former Army officer and Conservative MP, Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. In Stewart-Smith's journal, East-West Digest, in 1972, for example, we find the names who appeared in Crozier's 1970 anthology: Harry Welton of the Economic League, who had been in the anti-left business for 'fifty fighting years', to cite the title of the League's in-house history, and David Williams, the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-07.htm
... of the Peace and a Conservative trade unionist. Some time later I found that my name had appeared on Tory Action stationery as a committee member, which was a surprise. My work for Tory Action consisted of organising 'write-ins' – drafting a letter which I would copy to some of the correspondents with a request that they write to their MP or a minister – also writing letters to selected Tory MPs. When we first met, GKY gave me two files – 'write-ins' and 'parliamentary correspondence'. Later he gave me a list of MPs (about 20) and a list of correspondents (about 70). The only correspondent whose name I recall is Bee Carthew, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-21.htm
75. People [Lobster #26 (Dec 1993)]
... , 23 April, 1993). Brandon was one of the post-war school of journalists who were happy to act as mouthpieces for the secret services and foreign policy establishments of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as an "agent of influence'. Former Liberal MP Michael Winstanley (Lord Winstanley) died in July. A long obituary in the Daily Telegraph of July 19 failed to mention Winstanley's revelations about his knowledge of one of the anti-Harold Wilson plots of the 1960s, reported on p. 174 of the Dorril/Ramsay book Smear! Clive Derby-Lewis, briefly a South African Conservative MP, elected ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-10.htm
... has always been what she is today. While we must be careful not to exaggerate how left-wing she was, the fact remains that for her New Labour involved a journey to the right, whereas her husband was already there to begin with. How does she remember the great class battles that were taking place when Tony Blair first became an MP? The 1984-85 Miners' Strike gets one paragraph out of 405 pages of text. 'It was', she tells us, 'a painful time.' Even her personal hairdresser, Andre, gets more indeed, gets considerably more attention than the Miners' Strike. This is all the more remarkable considering that Blair's Sedgefield constituency was home ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46.htm
... Cockburn and St Clair concentrate on more recent events. Both draw on intelligence sources and a high proportion – half the Anti-Semitism collection – comes from Jewish writers. Lucas reaches back furthest with his evaluation of George Orwell but also brings us nearest to the present with his critique of the British newspaper columnists who supported the Iraq invasion. George Galloway MP, expelled from the Labour Party after allegations about his closeness to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, brings together elements of the other three in a stinging criticism of Tony Blair and the politics of New Labour. By way of critical summary and review, I will attempt to outline how New Labour fits into the bigger picture of transition ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-03.htm
... workers and management, the two sets of organisations united by peak federations and all finally capped by a great national forum of workers and managers and employers, embraced by the protection of an Imperial Tariff.'(6) Another of the corporatist groups financed by Midlands industrialists, the British Commonwealth Union (BCU), led by the Birmingham MP, Sir Patrick Hannon, began funding MPs to form an Industrial Group in Parliament. The first 11 candidates were subsidised by the BCU in the 1918 election: by 1924 the group in parliament consisted of 105 (mostly Tory) members. Hannon's Industrial Group chiefly wanted government protection of British industry against foreign competition, but, to quote ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-01.htm
... Club) as members; Lord Lyle (of Tate and Lyle) whose family has been connected with SIF since its formation in 1944; the late Lord Renwick (one-time chair of the Institute of Directors and board member of British United Industrialists); G.K. Young and Ross McWhirter. Another interesting member was Gerald Howarth. Howarth is the MP said recently to have been plotting the murder of Gerry Gable, but for our purposes his role in the early 1970s in the Prosecute Peter Hain campaign is more interesting. (37) Considering the overlapping memberships represented here- British United Industrialists, Institute of Directors, Aims, Monday Club- not to mention the intricate trails left by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-32.htm
... knew from my Loyalist contacts in Portadown that Nairac was involved with [Loyalist killer] Robin Jackson.... Reel explained that the IRA had, for a time, believed Nairac to be sympathetic to their cause, which was the reason he had been allowed to participate in IRA meetings...' Ken Livingstone's memory Ken Livingstone MP revisited this area in his column in The Independent on 21 May. Titled 'The secret conspiracy to destroy peace in Ireland', this was Ken revisiting the days in 1987 when he made his maiden speech in the Commons based on the allegations of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd about dirty tricks in Northern Ireland and the mainland UK. Unfortunately ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-07.htm
