New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Shawcross – who subsequently defected to the Conservatives and embarked on a business career which at this stage put him in the Shell boardroom – arranged with Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan a payment to IRIS of £40,000, worth about £500,000 today.(8) Lord Shawcross revealed that IRIS was already getting money from major companies […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] found; uphold human rights, most important of which are liberty, freedom of religious beliefs, social justice, and the self-determination of all peoples’.(153) And in fact, some genuinely conservative organisations that have affiliated with WACL promote a relatively moderate form of anti-communism and probably accept this disingenuous description as an accurate summary of their own […]

Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] but never traditional socialists or ‘nationalists’ of any hue. I recall Paddy Ashdown and Vincent Gable at early seminars and there brief flirtations with one or two Conservative neo-liberal intellectuals. Like the early IEA and Adam Smith Institute in its time, it was up for grabs by either main political party for a brief […]

Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings (BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought over several free-market ideologues including Philip Bobbitt (LBJ’s nephew). He was Reagan’s legal counsel from 1980-81, on the Select Committee/cover-up on Iran/Contra and […]

Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b   This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? […]

Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] the BMA), trade unions and religious movements or ‘cults’ are also included, wherever their activities have some involvement in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another […]

Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] (controlling key committees of Westminster and assisting the Whips of both Houses and both Parties) are no longer retired SIS officers. Nor do they now retire into Conservative Central Office, or become Conservative Office agents in the constituencies. In addition, the (mainly Conservative) hereditaries have been booted out of the House of Lords. These […]

The British American Project for the Successor Generation

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] when, in the early Eighties, both the Labour and Liberal parties opposed the major arms spending increases – nuclear and non-nuclear – central to Reagan and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. In the BAP version of its foundation it would appear that the institution of regular meetings of ’24 Americans and 24 Britons […]

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