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... where did it go wrong? In his conclusion he attacks 'the declinists', whose theories are nothing more than 'stories left over from the 19th century'. Yes, but he hasn't answered how it is that the technological nation of the 1950s and 60s he describes had so little influence that it was unable to prevent both the Heath and Thatcher governments from deregulating the City of London -- and wrecking the manufacturing economy. Or, more interestingly perhaps, how it was that the Tories persuaded the manufacturing turkeys to repeatedly vote for Christmas.... RR Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-16.htm
... of 'swamping', she sought to appropriate concerns about immigration, previously the NF's domain. Tyndall opened 1979 with yet more vain spluttering against trade union pickets, denouncing them as mobsters who under an NF regime would 'find themselves in police cells so quickly they won't know what hit them' -- closing off space to the Left just as Thatcher had drawn off support from the Right. (27) In this period there were allegations of collusion with the repressive apparatus of the state, centred around Martin Webster (which I will deal with in a subsequent article). Some NF members, however, were interested in colluding with elements of the orthodox right. In the summer ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-05.htm
... the Anglo-Rhodesian Society, and discovered that, as usual with the British right, there was no substantial account of it. Here is the result of an initial trawl. Future historians of the Conservative Party may discover that upon its heart in the 1960s "Rhodesia" was indelibly graven.(1 ) With the arrival of 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 the Labour ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-02.htm
... 55) was that Chalfont 'had been knighted by Wilson to enable him to sit in the Lords and thus be Minister for Disarmament'. (Incidentally our use of 'knighted' is wrong: it should have been 'enobled'.) McIntyre asks, 'What precisely was the nature of the 'Orwellian disinformation' to which we were exposed during the Thatcher administrations? ' Our answer follows in the final paragraph of the book, immediately after our use of the phrase 'Orwellian disinformation': viz 'promising to 'put Britain back to work' yet tripling unemployment', and so forth. He asks, 'Who are the mysterious 'survivors of the Heath government who dominate the Major Cabinet'? ' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-17.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 21) May 1991 Last | Contents | Next Issue 21 Western Goals (UK)Mike Hughes Organisation, History 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 and libertarian/radical traditions within the Conservative Party, (1 ) united by their opposition to the dominant, mainstream tradition within the Conservative Party. Once Thatcher's position as party leader ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 97 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-03.htm
... risings and organised terrorism of one kind or another, and that HMG should recreate a service to tackle this and supplement the role of SAS. The former Chindit leader and SAS founder, Brigadier Michael Calvert, and he produced detailed studies of this in the eighties and lobbied MP's vigorously to bring pressure on the government to consider it. Mrs Thatcher was seriously looking at the questions when the botched French attempt against a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand caused a general loss of nerve. Young's hope, however, was one day that necessity would call for the files. In any case he had set out his assessment of the whole subject in his last book, Subversion and the British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-05.htm
... of the book is, Forsyth dresses it up as a letter from Kim Philby (! ) to the Chairman of the CPSU, and has it printed in italics, all ten pages of it; and he later confirmed, to the Times Diary, that he had got the idea from MI5. Presumably it is this section that Mrs Thatcher finds so interesting. During the House of Commons debate on the Official Secrets Bill on 15 February 1989, Norman Buchan MP mocked the Prime Minister for admitting that she had read The Fourth Protocol twice. But she believes stuff like this, that was her appeal to the right-wing Tory/spook network in the mid 70's who ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-06.htm
... Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet's son, is one of Chirac's closest advisors, nicknamed 'the adjutant' by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports that Sir Arthur Franks and Nicholas Elliott were invited to Chequers for a working meeting with Mrs Thatcher, after her election. But perhaps the key political figure was the late Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian Premier and Langemann's boss. Strauss was a close friend of Alexandre de Marenches and was a frequent visitor to the SDECE's headquarters during Marenches' time. The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, the political trust attached to Strauss' Christian Social ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-03.htm
... terror that MI5 and the SAS used to destabilise the Wilson government's policies in Ireland. Attempts to investigate this have proved fruitless. John Stalker's investigation led back to the allegations of Holroyd and he was quickly moved to one side. Holroyd notes that Stalker's downfall came after he and Colin Wallace had sent their file of allegations and evidence to Mrs Thatcher in 1984. After which 'two events took place: the first was the Government's robust attempt to stop Spycatcher; the second was the attack on the integrity of John Stalker, both of whom were dealing in areas mentioned in the file (46). It is clear now, that because elements within the security forces did not want ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-02.htm
... closest assistant Mr N. (Nicholas) Elliot who was a department head in MI6. Crozier, Elliot and Franks were recently invited to Chequers for a working meeting. It must therefore be concluded that MI6 is fully aware of, if not indeed one of the main sponsors of, the anonymous security group. Also closely connected with Mrs Thatcher and Mr Franks is the prominent journalist Robert Moss, who, together with Fred Luchsinger editor of Neuen Zuricher Zeitung, Dr Cux of the Swiss Intelligence Service of Colonel Botta and Gerhard Lurventhal, moderator of the German TV channel ZDF, are involved in the promotion of the group's publicity programme .. ." Amongst other points in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-07.htm
