Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] fee from the Daily Telegraph for a piece Wallace wrote, anonymously, about the Northern Ireland situation. Further into the ‘Wilson plot’ material the author gives us Brian Crozier and gets the Crozier chronology wrong, with Forum World Features in the 1970s and the Institute for the Study of Conflict in the 1960s, instead of […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] any sources, that Neave ‘helped’ Young found Tory Action. 7 5 about the Northern Ireland situation. Further into the ‘Wilson plot’ material the author gives us Brian Crozier and gets the Crozier chronology wrong, with Forum World Features in the 1970s and the Institute for the Study of Conflict in the 1960s, instead of […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] was the work of the news agency, Forum World Features (FWF).27 FWF was no ordinary news agency. It had been established by the Anglo-American intelligence asset Brian Crozier in 1958, with CIA funding and, at the very least, the knowledge and support of SIS and John McEvoy, ‘Exclusive: Secret Cables Reveal Britain Interfered with […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his […]

Between The Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: Between The Waves The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague London: Picador, 2025, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The ‘revolution’ in the subtitle is the UK’s relationship with the EEC/EU – a huge subject, covered in great detail, in a very big book. Including notes and index, this is 544 (decently-bound) pages. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his […]

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

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. […]

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. […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] any Right extremist group that they (i.e. the CIA) wish to contact or make use of in this country. To facilitate this he has recruited one Peter Crozier, a close associate of Colin Jordan, to act as his go-between.”35 Whether or not this specific claim about Stewart-Smith is true, and we have no idea, […]

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