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... . Then, after Hatfield, costs soared to an unprecedented level. The annual subsidy is now running at several times the highest amount that BR ever received. All aspects of running a railway have become far more expensive...' Why should this be? First, of course, privatisation itself was a costly exercise. At a conservative estimate, the total cost of the process, including the amounts paid out by bidders, was reported to be at least £1bn. For the taxpayer, the direct cost was at least £600m,(3) which only covers the obvious spending such as fees for consultants and lawyers.... The sorry story of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-10.htm
... its support for war. This was a newspaper which had historically positioned itself on the left of centre and had taken some pride in its willingness to swim against the mainstream. Most famously The Observer had stood out against the British invasion of Suez in 1956, despite courting the scorn of the government and the loss of some of its more conservative readers and advertisers. And yet this newspaper which had thrived on scepticism was seduced into accepting unproven and extravagant claims; this flagship of the left was towed along in the wake of a determinedly right-wing American government; on this crucial, long-running story, the essential role of journalism, to tell the truth, was compromised.' Alton's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-30.htm
... Their links are very similar, of course, to those of NuLab's leadership. Why would they differ? Both groups of politicians are pro-American, pro-Israeli, pro-globalisation, pro-free market, pro-nuclear, pro-EU and pro-destroying the public sector. The only significant difference is that the Cameroons are linked to a different cluster of corporate sponsors. The NuLab and Conservative parties' use of PR is discussed but that isn't the meat of those chapters. This is the best introduction to real power politics in this society that I have read. Anyone who finds Lobster interesting will find this congenial and stimulating. Large chunks of this book would sit very comfortably in these pages and many themes which have appeared ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-49.htm
... Howard"' in The Daily Telegraph 31 October 2008. It began: 'Convicted drug dealer, John Haase, claims he bribed former Home Secretary Michael Howard £400,000 to get an early release from prison, Southwark Crown Court was told. John Haase told Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle that he arranged the alleged payment through a relation of Conservative cabinet minister, Southwark Crown Court heard. Haase, 59, and his cousin Paul Bennett, 44, received a Royal Pardon in 1996 and were released 11 months into a 17 year sentence for smuggling heroin, jurors were told. It was always thought they were allowed out of jail because the pair had turned supergrass and passed on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-24.htm
... of the SS. While there is nothing as revelatory in Major Farran's Hat, nevertheless it does lay bare a desperate counter-insurgency strategy that had no prospect whatsoever of success and instead descended into pointless murder. It will come as no surprise to learn that Farran walked away from the crime, wrote a best-selling memoir, stood for parlia-ment as a Conservative candidate in 1950 (he was defeated by the sitting Labour MP, a certain George Wigg), and went on to have a successful political career in Canada. He became Solicitor General in Alberta in the 1970s and later Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Farran was an authentic war hero, serv-ing in the SAS ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-38.htm
... Major government. Subsequent Labour election victories 4 <www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/55188/jim-murphy-labour-still-loves- israel> 5 <www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/tributes-to-philip- gould-a-giant-in-life-and-in-death -6258682.html> concealed a steady decline in Labour support, both in terms of activism and electoral turnout, leading to the present situation in which a very orthodox and conservative Labour seems incapable of landing a punch on a coalition submerged in political and economic crisis. Along the way Gould, apparently a rather undistinguished advertising man,6 became wealthy, highly influential and a member of the House of Lords. In the obit above we learn that the young Gould worked closely with the daughter of John Gilbert, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 18 Dec 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-tittle-tattle.pdf
... MP and the Liverpool News. "Some years ago Leigh wrote an anti-CND article for the Sunday Telegraph. The Liverpool News, an obscure pro-National Front rag wrote to him to ask him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the nature of the periodical, believing it merely to be some local Conservative newsletter. I know Leigh and when I first read this story in Searchlight I was amazed. There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, national socialism, racialism or anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)" From Ace R ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-01.htm
... have been a very good book, but inclusion in Pluto's 'Arguments for Socialism' series means: no index, no footnotes, and the scantiest of documentation. In some of this series this hasn't mattered too much, but with a subject like this the results are pretty catastrophic. The most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories' covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the clandestine history of this country whose significance can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears in print. Ross tells us that he is unsure whether ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 7) February 1985 Last| Contents| Next Issue 7 Parapolitical bits and pieces Ex-British intelligence officer Richard Winch said KGB defectors regularly named 7 'MPs, trade union leaders and 1 former Conservative Cabinet Minister' as KGB agents. (Daily Telegraph 24 and 27 September 1984) What, only 7? According to Frederick Forsyth's 'sources' in the British labour movement there are 20. (See Times 31 August 1984). And doesn't Chapman Pincher talk of 60 plus in his various books? Confirmation- if any were still needed- of the grotesque time-wasting that goes on under the name of 'counter intelligence' given in story of self-confessed 'anarchist' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-04.htm
... to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay have sought to unravel the events which took place at that time. They suggest that it was all part of a plan by elements within the security forces of the United Kingdom seeking to destabilise the Government of the day and to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the 'black' propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period leading to the downfall of the Power Sharing Executive. They make sense of Harold Wilson's complaints when he resigned- of steps being taken to destabilise his government- which, at the time ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-01.htm
