My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

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, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] 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 […]

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The Anglo-Rhodesian Society

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] 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 […]

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The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

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 […]

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Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

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 […]

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Digression 3

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] is often presented as something of a figure of fun – but he isn’t that. His ’92 Group’ seems to have remained a well-kept secret within the Tory Party for over twenty years until 1983, and is now reported to be the largest Tory Party grouping at Westminster, with over 80 MPs. The ‘New […]

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Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

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 […]

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