Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] view was put in words to them.’ Why did Kennedy decline to reveal his political persuasions? Did he have something to conceal? In 1964 Norris was the Conservative candidate at Orpington. With Ross and Kennedy he was probably a Conservative in 1958. However there is evidence which suggests that they also belonged to another […]

Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] $1.2 million, as opposed to the $534,750 in the previous five years. In the UK In 1995, Brown and Root’s donations of £16,000 a year to the Conservative Party (presumably making them an honoured member of the Party’s ‘Team One Thousand’ initiative for donors of a £1,000 or more) was not the particular cause […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings. Tom Spencer MEP, RIP About a month before the political demise of the Conservative MEP and former leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, Tom Spencer, I was asked by a researcher at the European Parliament what I knew about […]

Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Given the choice between a multi-racial, socially progressive Labour Party and nuclear interests, there wasn’t one. Now why was it that Matrix Chambers chose to represent the conservative interest in this legal conflict? To defend human rights? Can they hack it? An interesting British connection of Kissinger Associates is Hakluyt and Company Ltd, a […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] throughout the world, attention has been diverted from what the other side are up to over here. In fact, just four years and five months after the Conservative Government expelled 105 Soviet KGB and GRU (military intelligence) officers from Britain, the Russian spy network is back at full strength. There are nearly 200 Soviet-controlled […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Although a face-saving exercise will be agreed, it is unlikely that the Treasury will fund ‘make believe’ indefinitely. Notes 1 The Times, 16 October 2001 2 Former Conservative politician Dr Hartley Booth, now a partner with international lawyers Berwin Leighton, is Chairman of the British-Uzbek Society. This recent initiative was warmly welcomed by the […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Richard Griffiths Constable, 1998. Ten years ago this would have been a publishing sensation. Griffiths, the great expert on the British right and their fellow travellers, has found the membership list of the Right Club – a group active in 1939/1940 seeking to coordinate the work of all the patriotic societies. This book is his […]

An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] some research on him, which was published in a campus alternative paper I edited. Here was a multi-millionaire entrepreneur who was well-connected with corporate elites, and very conservative, with a CIA-on-campus issue thrown in for good measure. My story came and went, seniors graduated, and McCone stayed. By 1973 the CIA had overthrown Allende […]

Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] Salandria ‘soon found that liberals were not interested in what he had to say. So has he stopped saying it? Of course not; he has shifted to conservative audiences. The trouble is that some of those audiences are extremely conservative.’ What does this mean? Salandria talks to the fascists? Not quite fascists? No names? […]

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