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... the post-Hungary climate irrefutable exposure of the Soviet connection would have terminally damaged the CP, and in the medium to long term, this would only have benefitted the Labour Party. For the Red Scare-- at whose core was the link to Moscow-- has been a key feature in the political armoury of the anti-Labour alliance between the Tory Party and the state. Secondly, the end of the CP in Britain would have been bad news to MI5 in the Whitehall budget struggle. Nowadays they've got the IRA to frighten the politicians with. In the late 50s, if the CPGB had folded, who would they have had as a credible threat? MI5 needed the Communist ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-03.htm
... has failed us Graeme Maxton London: John Wiley& Sons; 2011, £20.00, h/b September 1984 saw the then British Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, in Washington for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund. A safe distance from home, he made a speech that rather let the cat out of the bag in terms of Tory labour- market policy. Many of the jobs of tomorrow, Lawson said, would not be 'high tech'. They may not even be 'low tech'. Instead, they would be 'no tech'. To have some idea of the impact of this speech, you have to recall that a future of high tech jobs was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 24 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-end-progress.pdf
... the sudden death of Gaitskell in 1963 and then by the departure of Jenkins for the Presidency of the European Economic Community had first formed themselves into the Manifesto Group. Key officers were two bright young Gaitskellite MPs from the North-East (again the parallels with New Labour's grip on seats in that region are striking), John Horam (later a Tory minister) and Ian Wriggles-worth (later a Labour Home Office minister with Jenkins), who represented a Teesside constituency adjoining that of Liddle's boss, Bill Rodgers. This Ian Wrigglesworth, who became an MP in 1974, is now Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, Freeman of the City of London. A founder member of the SDP and former President ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-01.htm
... in The Times just before the election, 'CIA men in Britain checking on Subversion'. A week later the Times carried an exclusive interview with the Czech defector Frolik who talked about infiltration of the Labour Movement by Soviet Bloc intelligence. Pincher again, "News of the Czech treachery and the thirteen expulsions did not leak out until after the Tory defeat." And leak they did. The Eye reported (6 /9 /74): "The cloak and dagger atmosphere which has been hanging around the Czech embassy in London may be ending. In recent months 9 Czech diplomats (?) have suddenly returned home. Now the Ambassador himself, Dr Miroslav Zemla, will ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 Obituaries Julian Amery Pre-war model Tory social imperialist who evoked enormous affection- even idolatry- in some quarters. Recent chair of the Pinay Circle. Laudatory obituaries in the House Magazine 7 October 1996, the Spectator 7 September 1996 and The Times 4 September 1996. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg (Obituary, Independent, 15 July 1995). In retirement, one of those former military men who supported General Sir Walter Walker's Civil Assistance in 1974/5. Alan Francovich (Obituary Guardian 26 April 1997 and the Independent 28 April). Film-maker, radical; most recently made ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-10.htm
... Aston and Mike Taylor, 'Fayed loses Diana inquest court case' Press Association 9 November 1999; Clare Dyer, 'Judge denies Al Fayed key role in Princess Diana inquest' The Guardian 10 November 1999, p.7. See Marie Woolf, 'MP's dismay as ex-Tory minister takes Fayed job', Daily Telegraph 5 April 2000; Nicholas Watt, 'Tory MP to quit over Fayed job', The Guardian 10 April 2000; Robert Shrimsley, 'Tory MP in Fayed row is to quit', Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000; Philip Johnston. 'How a Tory came to change his mind on Fayed', Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000 Charles Wardle, 'The Real Mohamed', The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
... over from the 1973/4 strike and sent some of their 'flying pickets' to stand outside sites that had been closed. I supported the strike until the 1974 so-called 'Ridley plan' (2) was revived in the media. This made it clear that the miners had been pushed into a strike for which the Thatcher wing of the Tory Party and the state had been preparing for a decade Miners' Strike 2, the Showdown with the Left and thus the miners were doomed. On page 245 of this book the authors write: 'the Prime Minister thought she was on a crusade against an Antichrist. After vanquishing the Argentineans she was going to vanquish "the enemy within ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-42c.htm
... for training. During the last Labour administration the then Minister of Overseas Development, Judith Hart, introduced a system of personal ministerial vetting, refusing to allow officers into the UK for training if their countries had a bad record, or if the individuals concerned were training for paramilitary or security branch work. This system was overturned by the incoming Tory administration. In April 1984, Douglas Hurd, then a Minister of State at the Home Office, listed the countries whose police personnel had been trained in the UK during the previous four years. They included such 'democratic' countries as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-06.htm
... that relative rarity, an historian who is economically literate; and the result here is a mix of economics, history, politics- and even a dash of parapolitics- so seamless it made me wonder again how anybody ever took seriously historians who don't know economics. Newton shows that appeasement was a rational attempt by the Chamberlain wing of the Tory Party to rejig the post-Versailles world in a way which would keep Germany a member of the international, liberal (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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-09.htm
... , £18.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual ridicule and abuse of the Labour leader that had won the election for the Tories. Indeed, Cherie's anger was such that the Murdoch papers were banned from the Blair household. Today, her autobiography has been serialised in that very same Sun newspaper. It is not The Sun that has changed over the intervening years. But how does her autobiography remember the 1992 general election? There is no mention of the way ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46.htm
