Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] official Party policy. Wilson’s administration did not, however, accept the Conference 1 Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: Volume 2: 1945-60 (St Albans: Paladin, 1975), p. 559. Ted Heath’s Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] change face up to the constitutional obstacle that confronts them, the only progressive reforms to materialise will be 3 At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] being ruled as suicide due to clinical depression. Sandra Paul later married David Wynne-Morgan, who ran Annabel’s night club, and is today married to Michael Howard MP, Conservative Party leader 2003-2005. Page 10 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Harold MacMillan to take the UK into the Common Market. Smedley, who was Vice President of the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] What of his political opinions? These are not that evident from his diaries it has to be said, but back in 1995, when he was already a Conservative MP, he had co-authored with Dominic Hobson a somewhat idiosyncratic ultra-Thatcherite volume, Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue. Some of the book’s […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941 Simon Matthews The writing of history is quite properly treated as a discipline. Many reputable historians, therefore, tend to be conservative, requiring multiple archival sources, an abundance of documentation and testimony from respectable eyewitnesses before reaching their conclusions. This often means that a very high level of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] before the UK is due to leave the EU. Why has the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] German intelligence. The West German BND is said to be one of his sources of finance. With these contacts Violet had put together an informal group of conservative, anti-communist politicians, bankers, journalists etc – The Pinay Circle. It is said to meet twice a year discussing how to promote the conservative cause. The following […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] by elements within the security forces of the United Kingdom seeking to destabilise the Government of the day and to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] people (and possibly themselves). The right has interests not ideas. 3. Many on the right are really much further right than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a […]