[…] recommend something ‘authoritative’ on subversion. He recommended Some Uncivil Liberties by Sam Swerling of the Monday Club. I reported all this to Dr Lawrence James a his tory teacher from my school days with whom I kept in touch. Dr James claimed to be a former Special Branch officer, and to have infiltrated the […]
The Oyston Affair appears to have been the longest and most expensive privately-funded political dirty tricks campaign in recent British his tory. The astonishing 15-year campaign waged against Owen Oyston by Michael Murrin, the owner of a fish and chip shop in the village of Longridge, Lancs, was backed by help and cash payments […]
[…] Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came “the New Right”, with about as much claim to be called “new” as had the “New Left’ a decade earlier. Although the Tory right has a history with the same kinds of continuities and discontinuities as the Labour left, it lacks a detailed historical record like there is of […]
[…] big rip-off. I wonder how it’s being done? So I did a little digging, though I could see how the ideology of the Thatcher wing of the Tory Party connected to the disappearance of oil revenues from the UK economy; and wrote a piece called ‘The Theft of North Sea Oil’ which I eventually […]
Anti-Alienism in England after the First World War – David Cesarani – in Immigrants and Minorities, March 1987 Pressure Groups, Tory Businessmen and the aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers […]
[…] Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive his tory of fascism in this period but rather to fill in a number of crucial gaps in the extant research, notably: what overall political strategy the significant […]
[…] crude leadership bid.'(5) (emphasis added) Opposing the European Union (EU), a section of the British Labour Left is in danger of contamination by a section of the Tory Right, which also opposes the EU. Labour Left opponents of the EU thus to have to try to ensure that they are not contaminated by such […]
Organisation, His tory and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist […]
[…] anti-communist propaganda operations. (2) Where, in all this, we should now place Mayhew’s October ’47 proposal to Bevin is not clear. Was it a political ‘cover s tory’, designed to show the initiative coming from within the Labour Government and not from the Foreign Office? In Bevin’s presentation of the case to the Cabinet […]
From Les Raphael A comment on Garrick Alder’s reference in Lobster 43 to the Zinoviev letter s tory. It’s a myth that the letter cost Labour the 1924 election, loaded with false implications, such as: that Labour had a majority to begin with (they only won 191 seats in 1923 – and only contested […]
