The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]
The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]
[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]
[PDF file]: […] which the intelligence agencies occasionally feel obliged to gob. Under Thatcher there was the dramatic rise of private intelligence agencies run by various of her admirers, Brian Crozier and the like, that operated alongside MI5. CND was apparently a particular target of these ‘privateers’. But what of the war her government waged against the […]
[PDF file]: […] British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His voice has been digitally altered to conceal his identity and I found it […]
[…] British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His voice has been digitally altered to conceal his identity and I found it […]
[…] the ‘laundromat’ in ‘Londongrad’ for Russian money and the consequent Russian influence on British political life. The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His voice has been digitally altered to conceal his identity and I found it […]
[PDF file]: […] 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith’) and he just kept pursuing it, expanding it. This (final?) version is 564 pages, including 603 endnotes, bibliography and appendices. […]
[PDF file]: […] period he also helped set up Heritage’s London operation, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, while authoring anti-Labour material here alongside his old acquaintance Brian Crozier and 136 Winter 2010 in the United States with Roy Godson (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now director of the Global Policy Institute, a senior […]
Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen […]
