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 […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] first part this is worth getting. £4.20, cheque payable to ‘Greenwich Branch Nalgo’ to: Basement, Borough Treasurers Department, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London SE 18 Social Science His tory Vol 7 Spring 1983 (Sage Publishing, London) The entire issue is devoted to essays on The American Corporate Network, edited by the distinguished American ‘elite sociologist’ […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] and hundreds of thousands of words! It has been a staggering achievement by Wallace. It was Steve Dorril who was first interested in the Colin Wallace s tory, writing about in Lobster 1 in 1983 in the context of the Kincora Boys Home scandal. In 1985 Fred Holroyd was trying to get the media […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] capable of voting. The manager never saw the forms again but all five residents ended up as proxy voters. One of them gave his vote to a Tory County Councillor who lives just three doors away. The manager has now contacted the police. Granny farming Lobster readers will be aware that this grotesque trail […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] Sir Keith Joseph when in opposition. The CPS’s most important link is to the Campaign For Defence and Multilateral Disarmament (CDMD) which is run and funded by Tory Central Office, and helps distribute CPS literature. Harvey Thomas, Tory Central Office official on the CDMD committee said “We keep in touch with the Coalition. There […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] 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 Guardian 4 April 2000. Henry Porter was given […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] resistance which experience had taught him would otherwise take years to develop.’ (p. 239, emphasis added) Pergau The Pergau Dam affair revealed the shape of the new Tory corporatism. Companies fund the Tory Party; Tory government bribes (sorry: gives aid to) the Malasian government which gives orders to….. the British companies who give money […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] and disintegration of these Trotskyist sects as the demise of any credible left opposition to Thatcherism. Hitchens actually describes the 1990s as the first time in his tory that a Marcusian society without credible opposition came into existence.(2)It was in this context that he says, quite candidly, that he decided to join the winning […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] the fact that every scientific advance opens up new areas of uncertainty – and as a result, Britain’s fields are in danger of becoming an outdoor labora tory for the benefit of the biotech industry. As farmers go out of business – especially in dairying, a form of agriculture particularly well suited to our […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] It appears to be the central strategy of Searchlight to attach one of these labels to everyone they perceive to be right of the centre of the Tory Party. This tactic really came into its own in the Soviet bloc in the post-war period. Part of the rationale for holding onto its Eastern European […]