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... Brian Crozier has related that he first met Eden at one of the early sessions of the National Association for Freedom (NAFF), and Eden would go on to work with Crozier's 'Shield.’ 2 0 After the closure of the Information Research Department (IRD), Shield worked to provide briefings on the alleged Communist threat for the leadership of the Tory Party. Crozier also stepped into the gap caused by the closure of IRD with a group that included ex-SIS officer Nicholas Elliot and US General Vernon Walters that he described as a 'Private Sector Operational Intelligence agency', called the 6I (the Sixth International but more commonly rendered as the 61). Ramsay reviewed Crozier's memoir and observed that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 19 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-atlantic-semantic.pdf
... origins. The British upper (and upper-ish) classes have never been really comfortable with democracy. Hence their resistance to the very (European) idea of 'intelligence ethics'. Secrecy also of course allows them to hide their own incompetences and illegalities, and save their political masters embarrassment. That may be the reason for the 'shrillness' (Tory MP Dominic Raab's word) of the recent accusations against Snowden by Andrew Parker, head of MI5. (His revelations, Parker claimed, were a 'gift' to the terrorists.) Until now they've had the American intelligence élite with them on this. But America has its constitutional safeguards, which are coming into play; and a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 20 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-spies-we-trust.pdf
33. Apocryphylia [Lobster #66 (Winter 2013) (free)] [Free Issue]
... the Persian Gulf (shades of the late Simon Dee) became a popular DJ on the BBC. 6 Stonehouse was the subject of allegations in 1969 that he was a Czech spy. Was the selection of the RNI broadcasting frequency a deliberate attempt to compromise or embarrass him? If so, by whom? voters to ditch Wilson and go Tory in the name of personal freedom. Approximately five million electors were aged between 18 and 24 in 1970, about 14% of all those registered to vote. The anti-Labour campaign reached a crescendo on the weekend of Saturday-Sunday 13/14 June 1970 when Radio North Sea International changed its name to Radio Caroline International and staged a rally in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 07 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-apocryphylia.pdf
... given some weight by his having served as a Treasury Minister under Labour's first post-war premier. Major enjoyed not one but two periods of extraordinarily high approval ratings. The first followed his arrival in office, the second his surprise general election victory in April 1992. Between the two peaks was a deep valley of unpopularity, occasioned by the second Tory recession in a dozen years. As Mr Turner notes:'[T ]he assumption was that Labour were the favourites to win.’ Well, indeed. The Tories were fighting on far more hostile terrain than five years earlier, when tax rates had been falling and Britain was booming. In fact, the economy in downbeat 1992 was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 45 - 20 Sep 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-classless-society.pdf
... to 2001. Michael Mates MP was a Conservative Northern Ireland minister from 1992 to 1993 until forced to resign after the publication of a letter he had written to the attorney-general in support of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, 'Don't let the buggers get you down'. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir's 2012 trial and later last year, when he was runner-up in an election for police and crime commissioner in Hampshire, he said of his support for Nadir: 'Every single thing that I alleged when I was taking up the case ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-asil-nadir-conspiracy.pdf
... of an age and the woman who dominated it. Welcome to Britain Without Her.... Scenario One; the Sea Change: October 26 1978. Guess What? Jim Callaghan listens to his cabinet. They're telling him to take advantage of economic growth and lower inflation and go to the country. The polls show only a small Tory lead of 8 points. It vanishes during a dirty, emotional campaign as Uncle Jim's reassuring presence turns the tide. His appeal rests on one simple question. Are you, the British people, ready to tear up the roots just as things are getting better and trust your nation's destiny to this extraordinary woman? Hardly a socialist question ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-what-if.pdf
... government's economic policies did precisely 'erode the industrial base of our economy and threaten its social and political stability'. Osborne and Cameron had also been much impressed by the experience of Canada where large cuts in state expenditure had been followed by economic revival. In 2010 The Telegraph ran a report, 'Coalition government: the Canadian cuts model that the Tories wish to emulate' on the Canadian government's experience in the early 1990s of cutting state spending by 20% more or less across the board in response to a large state deficit.16 In his Mais Lecture in 2010 Osborne referred to Canada- and also to the experience of Sweden and said: 'As Goran Persson, the Social Democrat Prime Minister ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... players, right up to the moment of decision. What Katie – or rather, Clem, Anthony, Harold and the rest – did next is for other books to cover, as indeed they have. The concentrated nature of the material yields some marvellous anecdotes and demolishes a few myths along the way. Thus those to whom the pre-Thatcher Tories were suave internationalist moderates may be surprised to learn that Selwyn Lloyd, Foreign Secretary at the time of Suez, 'spoke no foreign languages, had never been abroad except in wartime and did not like foreigners'. By contrast, Eden was 'an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 10 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-six-moments-of-crisis.pdf
... Another of the corporatist groups financed by Midlands industrialists, the British Commonwealth Union (BCU), led by the Birmingham MP, Sir Patrick Hannon, began funding MPs to form an Industrial Group in Parliament. The first 11 candidates were subsidised by the BCU in the 1918 election: by 1924 the group in parliament consisted of 105 (mostly Tory) members. Hannon's Industrial Group chiefly wanted government protection of British industry against foreign competition, but, to quote Hannon, they also 'wanted the largest measure of freedom in the relationship between capital and labour and the least state intervention possible.’ 6 These early corporatist dreams failed for a number of reasons. Employer organisations were none too happy at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
... hastened by a lacklustre performance before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.7 He was accompanied there by David Jordan, the BBC's director of editorial standards and policy, who continued to defend the Newsnight decision not to run the Savile exposé with a version of events long shown to be untrue.8 Apart from gossipy little tales about Jordan's relationship with Tory MP Tracey Crouch, the mainstream media offered little background on this important figure at the BBC for more than 20 years. In his broadcasting youth, Jordan, along with Peter Mandelson and David Aaronovitch, was part of the London Weekend Television team recruited by John Birt for his Weekend World current affairs show. This, according to Birt ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 28 Jan 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-tittle-tattle.pdf
