Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the likelihood that other units would have been formed and tasked with similar duties in other countries that were deemed as ‘weak in the face of the Communist threat’? The paranoid mindset prevalent in the Foreign Office at 10 Dorril, MI6 (see note 8) p. 100. 11 See pp. 63/4 of John L. Bebber, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] or less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was facing a vast, Soviet-funded communist conspiracy, ‘the enemy within’. And so when Green heard that Murrell was missing it wasn’t so irrational that he should ring the Shropshire police and inform […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] be reams of it in James Burnham; but here we are only talking about neo-Machiavellianism mixed with people’s desperate desire not to be thought of as a communist. We should go back to the timeless master, Niccolo Machiavelli here. Would not The Cunt have made a better title than The Prince? Some readers may […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] for the last 25 years. We plumped for the City and ignored the manufacturing base.’ Politicians don’t do this. Political parties not seeking election – e.g. the Communist Party of Great Britain – can say such things (and the CPGB did circa 1990). But for parties engaged in electoral politics this is impossible. Or […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were eventually recruited into the Auxiliary Units. Initially these volunteers were already serving in the Home Guard […]