Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within it there is a short his tory of British League of Empire Loyalists, a rather important group on the British post-war right, about which there is almost no current published material. Here, extracted […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] a digest of research into the British right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunc tory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes into the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] 38, has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher’s first visit to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the London embassy who liaised with the Tory Party, and was sent on a six week freebie […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see The Tory Right Between the Wars in Lobster 15) the vast majority of those companies are from the domestic manufacturing sector of the British economy. The report (The […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] a campaign for re-armament. Speakers included the former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] This dominant alliance was so well entrenched that it was able to survive the financial crisis of 1931 by making only tactical adjustments to the liberal trajec tory of policy. Departing from the gold standard and adopted a floating exchange rate permitted the pursuit of a ‘cheap money’ policy based on a low bank […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] long – far too long for publication – letter from me to the Spectator on 27 March 1990. Here are two sections from that. Here the s tory is much more complicated than Ware would have us believe. I was working on the Wallace story, as a researcher to Channel 4 News’ Robert Parker, […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] outgrowth of Thatcher’s; a Stalinism complete with Orwell’s endless war, obsessed with the enemy within – the idea of enfranchising the working class. Blair’s McKinsey-trained hordes accelerated Tory transformation of public service to private profit. New Labour abrogated the responsibilities of democratic government, leaving even the waging of war to private enterprises who profit […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]
