The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.’ It’s a famous quotation, recycled endlessly on-line, something he reportedly said at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting.3 But did he actually say it? At 4 there is what purports to be the audiotape of Rockefeller saying this in 1991. Yet on the […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: *reformatted early 2026* Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites Robin Ramsay In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become ‘contaminated’ by the interest in it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.’ 1 or 2 
 2 It’s a famous quotation, recycled endlessly on-line, something he reportedly said at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting.3 But did he actually say it? At 4 there is what purports to be the audiotape of Rockefeller saying this in 1991. Yet on the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and a lefty, though of what particular stripe I’m not sure (tendence Groucho, perhaps.) We only met a handful of times.8 He wrote the seminal article about Bilderberg for Lobster 32. Nothing 5 6 7 8 A photo and brief biog, from the perspective of a group in Leeds to which he belonged, is […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] this journal in 1983 I tried to assess his claims.2 To my knowledge there is still no academic work on this subject, possibly because – as with Bilderberg – the interest of the conspiracy theorists in America has contaminated the material. Nonetheless the (non-academic) interest in Quigley remains and there is a collection of […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] university trade union courses at Harvard and Columbia’. (Carew p. 191) GMWU General Secretary, Tom Williamson, was one of the participants at the first meeting of the Bilderberg Group in 1954. (Eringer p. 49) Other British participants included Hugh Gaitskell and Dennis Healey, who discusses the Bilderberg meetings in his memoir, The Time of […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] trouble from a Labour government. In some of these dining rooms John Smith was already known: at this point he was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, some of whose regular attenders are bankers. But this ass-kissing was to no avail: Labour lost again in 1992. Neil Kinnock resigned and John Smith […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] this journal in 1983 I tried to assess his claims.1 To my knowledge there is still no academic work on this subject, possibly because – as with Bilderberg – the interest of the conspiracy theorists in America has contaminated the material. Nonetheless the (non-academic) interest in Quigley remains and at there is a collection […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] less confident about their job, think ‘Oh, I won’t push my boss for that higher pay’. It’s that weakness in activity which eventually gets rid of inflation.33 Bilderberg Does Bilderberg still matter, now that it has been so thoroughly exposed by people like Tony Gosling?34 I don’t know. If you are interested in a […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] less confident about their job, think ‘Oh, I won’t push my boss for that higher pay’. It’s that weakness in activity which eventually gets rid of inflation.33 Bilderberg Does Bilderberg still matter, now that it has been so thoroughly exposed by people like Tony Gosling?34 I don’t know. If you are interested in a […]

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