The crisis

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] the manufacturing base after the Thatcher governments had a go at it. This country’s fishing industry was largely wrecked as part of the price of entering the EEC in 1972. The steel industry was ‘rationalised’, and, like coal, was mostly closed in the 1980s. Agriculture is being reduced under ‘set aside’ schemes and another […]

Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] Circle was on the weekend of 1st December 1979 in the Madison Hotel in Washington. Among the participants were the German minister Narjes (now influential in the EEC), ex Minister of Air Julian Amery, from Great Britain, ex CIA Director William Colby, Federal Reserve Bank manager Volkers, President of the Heritage Trust Foundation, Feulner, […]

Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King ‘coup’ of May 1968

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] of 0.5 of a percentage point on 21 March. There was a warm international reception, too, with ‘relief and satisfaction’ being expressed by the OECD. (38) The EEC Six called the Budget ‘courageous’, with the European Commission forecasting a British balance of payments surplus by the end of the year.(39) The IMF was said […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] a year and though the subscription is given as f30 (French francs?) it might be sensible to write and ask for sub. rates if living outside the EEC countries. Editor/producer is Michael Quilligan, Ierland Informatie Centrum, Commelinstraat, 22/sous, 1093 TS, Amsterdam, Holland. Issue No 1 (March 1988) included some information on the new head […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] states of the Americas. In short, the pariah states. Ms. Becker seems oblivious to the basic facts of life, such as Britain’s membership of NATO and the EEC. The real irony is that this is all being done too late. The Republicans are going to lose the American presidential election. George Bush is slowly […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] OPERATIONS 1970s MET FNLA REPS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. MEMBER PRIVATE SPOOKS GROUP ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6 ‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR RELATIONS. WIFE CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF HAROLD MACMILLAN’ DIR SOUTH AFRICAN MINING COMPANIES: VAAL […]

At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to me how any foreign secretary could know if the spooks decided to deceive him/her. There are, as always, interesting snippets. ‘When Britain’s application to join the EEC was finally accepted he was allowed to place some of his personnel on the personal staffs of British commissioners, making George Thomson’s private office in Strasbourg […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] Tory Party, then made his famous U-turn. This is half-true, at best. It is clear now that Heath had one overriding aim – British entry into the EEC – and everything else played second fiddle to that. In the first year and a half of his government he appeared to believe that the best […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] has ‘hi-jacked’ the issue is nonsense. There has always been a section of the Tory Right which, like a section of the Labour Left, has opposed the EEC and the European Union. Rather uncomfortably they lined up together in the 1975 referendum campaign on EEC membership; just as some of their political antecedents had […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] integration as it was set out in the 1958 Treaty of Rome. At that time Nye Bevan argued that the Common Market or European Economic Community ( EEC) elevated ‘the marketplace to the status now enjoyed by the various European Parliaments’. Socialism and democracy had been rejected in favour of free trade: there was […]

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