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... London Council (GLC). There is a certain rough justice in this, in that it is this period which continues to define him for many people and provides a great deal of the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but was previously mentioned by Carvel. Their activism included helping at elections always a key indicator of serious political commitment. They lived in a council flat for a few years in the early 1950s but bought their own house as soon as possible. It would have been interesting ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-11.htm
... , Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The widespread shock which greeted his assassination was probably nowhere more clearly felt than by Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the Conservative opposition. Neave had masterminded Thatcher's rise to power in the Conservative Party, organising her election as party leader. It was probably him who directed the 'dirty tricks' campaign against Heath which proved so effective. From 1975 until his death Neave headed Thatcher's private office. It was expected that he would be an important influence on her when ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-05.htm
... easy to let the real weight of MI5's role slip by. MI5 is the very heart of it, the palace guard- literally and metaphorically. Harold Wilson's charges against the agency in 1976 were very serious business indeed. In simpler times, back in the 1930s, the relationship between the British state's intelligence agencies and their masters in the Conservative Party was clearer. Joseph Ball, one of the major eminences grises of this country's recent history, managed to combine the roles of head of the Government's Intelligence Department and head of the Conservative Party's Research Department- then also essentially an intelligence operation. (161) And if the British population (and the left) of the time ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-11.htm
... Robin Douglas-Home was divorced by his wife, model Sandra Paul, in 1965 as a result of his affair with Princess Margaret. He was found dead in 1968, the death being ruled as suicide due to clinical depression. Sandra Paul later married David Wynne-Morgan, who ran Annabel's night club, and is today married to Michael Howard MP, Conservative Party leader 2003-2005. Page 10 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Harold MacMillan to take the UK into the Common Market. Smedley, who was Vice President of the Liberal Party at this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be 'the last bastion of freedom if the country went ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 62 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-004.pdf
... of most Westminster governments since 1970);* the corrosive consequences of an unregulated media;* the increasingly poor educational standards prevalent in the UK;* the casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially 'fair' but as long as the voting affiliations of the masses remained determined by this 'us and them' syndrome, and they opted for one of two monolithic parties, a certain rough ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 02 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-brexit-accident.pdf
... in Angola received massive publicity, the intriguing titbits thrown up by the reporting were not pursued. In particular, there was the article by Stephen Glover (Daily Telegraph 16th May 1984) in which he stated that he had been approached ten days before the hostage taking with a view to reporting the capture. Glover was approached by an unnamed Conservative MP with an interest in Africa, who suggested flying with him and a senior director of Lonrho to Unita's headquarters at Jamba, Southern Angola, to preside over the return of some British hostages. In some reports, in Private Eye in particular, it has been claimed that the whole affair was orchestrated by an alliance of right-wingers in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 60 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-05.htm
... small station licensed by the French government with a transmitter capable of reaching London and the South East from a base on the French Channel coast. Like Luxembourg this also began in 1933 and proved to be highly popular. As well as his immensely lucrative commercial interests Plugge also had a political career: in 1935 he was elected 35 Summer 2010 Conservative MP for Chatham. He also moved in the highest of high society circles with all the usual trappings of the uber-rich, including a London residence on Park Lane that he purchased from Baron Leopold de Rothschild. The considerable success of Radio Luxembourg, and Plugge's expansion of his network via the International Broadcasting Company to Spain, Yugoslavia and Eire ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 60 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-034.pdf
... . That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief of the 'paranoid left' (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region; and with that hat on he is the author of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... sterling was simply hitching an anti-inflationary piggy-back ride on the German mark. In essence, Mills holds that it is monetarist doctrine/dogma which is primarily responsible for the low growth rates in the British and European economies since the seventies. And that monetarism itself is the enemy of enterprise, a financial orthodoxy which is the natural correlate of a conservative social and political orthodoxy. With its emphasis on tight money, high interest and exchange rates, conditions which slow down productive enterprise, and make it easier to import and harder to sell abroad, it is a doctrine which not only appeals to the socially conservative but also represents, to a large extent, their real interests. Bankers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-44.htm
... large, this hostility in and of itself creates a psychological bond betwen them which is arguably deeper than that which links them to less disaffected personalities who have similar political opinions. From this point of view, it does not seem at all incongruous when an Italian neo-fascist editor insists that 'a revolutionary of whatever stripe is closer to us than a conservative',(23) a view which echoes those expressed by many fascists and Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s (24); or when a German neo-Nazi from Schwartzwald-Franz Schubert Kommando argues that the petty differences between the right and left 'can be set aside by those who claim to be undogmatic.'(25) Second, as ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-01.htm
