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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]