View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat from the left ’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling State Research, no. 2 November […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] new mouthpiece.14 Mr Murdoch snapped up 20th Century Fox and six US TV stations in 1984 (the same year that he apparently supplied cash to fund Brian Crozier on a supposed fact-finding mission in Europe). In 1985, Mr Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen in order to meet a regulatory requirement that TV stations […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling State Research, no. 2 November […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

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[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

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[PDF file]: […] the Coalition. One of McKnight’s achievements is to uncover some of Murdoch’s connections with what he describes as the ‘ultraThatcherites’, the likes of David Hart and Brian Crozier. Murdoch was right behind Hart during the miners’ strike when Hart was instrumental in establishing the scab Union of Democratic Mineworkers. Indeed, there is a suspicion […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith’) and he just kept pursuing it, expanding it. This (final?) version is 564 pages, including 603 endnotes, bibliography and appendices. […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

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[PDF file]: […] period he also helped set up Heritage’s London operation, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, while authoring anti-Labour material here alongside his old acquaintance Brian Crozier and 136 Winter 2010 in the United States with Roy Godson (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now director of the Global Policy Institute, a senior […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen […]

The miners and the secret state

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[PDF file]: […] call Alzeimer’s disease and Wilson suspected he might get it and resigned before it developed. And he was exhausted. 12 One of the network’s leading figures, Brian Crozier, who worked for the CIA and IRD, describes briefing Mrs Thatcher in his memoir, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) pp. 131-133. Page 74 Winter 2009/10 Lobster […]

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