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 State Research, no. 2 November 1977. Chapman Pincher makes no reference to this story in his […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[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 liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

Lobster Issue

The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]

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