Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] bureaucracy and on the board of Policy Network, the plaything of his old mate and EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson. Funding Policy Network is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, and sitting alongside Liddle on the board are Third Way guru Lord Giddens, Lord Kinnocks old kitchen cabinet pair, Patricia Hewitt and Charles Clarke, and the […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] one M.J. Davies, born in South Africa, a Rhodes Scholar, who had a career in British colonial administration between 1940 and 1962. In a profile of Lord Rothschild (he of ‘Think Tank’ fame) by Peter Hennessy (Times 22 May 1984) Rothschild is described as “a modern-day version of Lord Milner, the charismatic imperialist whose […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] movement should have been acceptable to a politician with Gladstone’s record. But he was frightened, along with most of the political and financial elite in London. Lord Rothschild, having presided over a reorganisation of the debt in 1879, began to panic, as did the sixty members of Parliament whose personal fortunes were tied up […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] insists on calling the RIS (Russian Intelligence Service) but has virtually no evidence to back up this view. There is some speculation about the allegiance of Lord Rothschild which has been floating around in certain sections of the British Right for about 45 years since the late and unlamented Kenneth de Courcy first alleged […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Instead of ending the book with Wilson’s resignation in 1976, a new conspiracy is unrolled and a new victim smeared in the person of the late Lord Rothschild, who is alleged to have been used by Oldfield, the head of MI6, ‘to hit back at MI5 … and reactivate Wright’ (p. 326). This dubious […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] before his death, which are reprinted on pp. 159-67). Some investigators have recently suggested that the Tecos themselves murdered Buenida after the publication of said articles. See Rothschild, pp. 22-3. Valentine, pp. C1 and C2. Among these were Italy’s legal ‘neo-fascist’ political party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), represented by its leaders Giorgio Almirante, […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] the period, Brian Walden, Reg Prentice and Bob Mellish! Edward Heath gets a lot of attention. He “can be shown to be under Soviet control through Lord Rothschild” (notice the ‘it can be shown ‘ again). This, I presume, is a reference to the ‘5th man’ story which surfaced in 1986 during the early […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] Brown’s new Business Secretary on and off yachts are moving so fast, it would be worthless saying too much. But a few things are worth remembering. Nathaniel Rothschild is not the only member of that banking dynasty to be close to the former Hartlepool MP. Evelyn Rothschild and wife Lynn Forester are old Mandelson […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] wants to subscribe (or try to cadge a free copy) the address is Asian Outlook, Box 22992, Taipei. Taiwan. Subs. are $10 per year. Memoirs from Lord Rothschild An exquisite example of how the British State operates is to be found in the droll but thin volume of memoirs from Lord Rothschild (he of […]
