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... politicians. And, of these oligarchs, by far the most powerful since the early 1980s has been Rupert Murdoch. Unfortunately Nick Davies's tremendous Hack Attack demonstrates quite conclusively that far from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch's influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the Guardian hunted down the truth of the hacking scandal despite all the obstacles put in their way by News International, Scotland Yard, the Press Complaints Commission, the rest of the media, and a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 09 Sep 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-murdoch.pdf
... ; and it says something else that despite Challen's pulling together of the available material - some chapters have over 70 endnotes - at least half of the Conservative's recent financial sources remain a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she came to power. One of the ironies of our time is that while Mrs T took office determind to keep a lid on the public's knowledge of the secret state and the other potential embarassments to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-16.htm
... . We are conscious of the fact that the report in PP/Intelligence may well be the end product of a complicated translation process: from German into French, and then French into English and this may explain what appear to be errors. The Pinay Circle is an informal group which meets twice a year in different locations. It includes conservative and anti-communist politicians, journalists, bankers etc., and occasional guests, all of whom originally gravitated around former French President Pinay. A meeting took place at the Madison Hotel, Washington, on Dec. 1st 1979. Participants included Julian Amery MP (ex SOE, the Albanian operation, ex Air Minister); William ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-06.htm
... situation, relegating Skidelsky's volume to a well-deserved academic limbo. What of the old fascist himself? Mosley had an undistinguished First World War. According to his son, Nicholas, this always rankled: he 'had seen little active combat, and this played on his mind'. His subsequent entry into the House of Commons as a Conservative MP owed considerably less to his war record than it did to his affairs with the wives of prominent Tories and the connections and contacts this provided. What is interesting is Mosley's decision, once in the House, to position himself on the left. He played an important part in the opposition to the Lloyd George Coalition's Irish policy, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-35.htm
... states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the 'special relationship' at first hand. Put-down of the decade?Edward Du Cann, some time Chairman of the Conservative Party, Chairman of the Party's 1922 Committee, and, until 1991, Chairman of Lonrho, published an autobiography in 1995, Two Lives (Image Publishing, Upton upon Severn, UK), which received little attention. It's quite interesting on the City, on the Heath government - and how it was wrecked by the City's lending ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-06.htm
... (economically liberal) world. 'Between 1921 and 1940 the dominant alliance in Britain was founded on a coalition between a ruling élite centred on the Treasury, the Bank of England, and the City of London and an expanding middle class .. . this hegemonic group, based at the popular and the political level on a fusion between the Conservative and pre-1914 Liberal parties, was committed to the defence of free enterprise and the limited state against the internal threat of socialism and the external menace of Bolshevism... and to work for the construction of a liberal international trade and payments system in which sterling would be the leading reserve currency. ' And thus, 'The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-09.htm
... to London's liking. It simply suits the US/UK to have the body politic in Fiji permanently divided on racial lines but with an inbuilt native Fijian 'majority'. Given the choice between a multi-racial, socially progressive Labour Party and nuclear interests, there wasn't one. Now why was it that Matrix Chambers chose to represent the conservative interest in this legal conflict? To defend human rights? Can they hack it?An interesting British connection of Kissinger Associates is Hakluyt and Company Ltd, a recently emerged (and striking) example of a semi-commercial relationship between MI6 and the City. Unusually, there have been numerous leaks concerning the company in the British press ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-22.htm
... Meanwhile the 'pros', containing all the centrists who had been promoted by the media as the 'sensible' people, had tons of money and some covert help from the British secret state in the shape of IRD. The only bits of interest are an entertaining account by Alan Sked of his career as a eurosceptic and this snippet from former Conservative MP Richard Body: 'Carefully selected people were invited to luncheon and dinner .. .. .. .. to hear speakers give what they claimed to be confidential briefings "off the record". The real reason which could not be told publicly for our entry to the common market was because our intelligence service had learned the Soviet ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-50.htm
... his beliefs (if he has any). Friends in high places The text of a very interesting complaint sent in December 2007 to Peter Ramsden, Secretary to the Committee on Standards in Public Life about the influence of the Israeli lobby in the UK, is on-line.(5 ) Most usefully, it includes details of the Conservative as well as Labour Friends of Israel. The authors comment: 'In the meantime your Committee is aware how the lobby group, Friends of Israel, has embedded itself in the British political establishment and at the very heart of government. Its stated purpose is to promote Israel's interests in our Parliament and sway British policy. MPs are surely ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-26.htm
... to treachery.(14) Nor were the Right Club gang entirely political losers even if after 1945 Ramsay crept away from public life, spending his time and money on funding Britons Publishing with Arnold Leese. Others who followed him remained politically active. Colonel Kerr (as Lord Teviot) organised the merger of the Liberal National Party with the Conservatives in 1947. Major Edmondson was Chairman of the Carlton Club until 1956. Lt. Commander Agnew remained MP for South Worcs until 1966 and Lord Lymington/the Earl of Portsmouth was a key figure in the white settlers in Kenya throughout the 1950s. Later still the Marquess of Graham could be found in the Rhodesia Front. The great ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-05.htm
