Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] that after his maiden speech: ‘Rumours began to circulate that Kinnock had been warned by MI5 that if he did pursue these claims, then damaging stories about Labour MPs’ sexual and financial peccadilloes would be leaked to journalists. MI5 wasn’t joking. Pictures of a married former Labour cabinet minister in the company of two […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by critical […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] platform, in Parliament he could eventually count on the support of some forty Conservative MPs, the Liberals under Archibald Sinclair, and, after Munich, almost all of the Labour Party. Origins of The Focus The Focus was partly a dining club and partly a campaign co-ordinating committee. If not strictly secret, it was private and […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] the Persians could effectively resist the comparatively small number of troops which could be brought in quickly’.(24) The Foreign Secretary and the Defence Minister of the then Labour government both favoured the use of military force to seize the oil installations. The option of military intervention was kept open until September 1951, when the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Evans. The other two members were Michael Beloff QC and James Goudie QC. Beloff and Goudie were not only closely connected with the Blairs but also the Labour Party. These relationships were of prime importance because my appeal concerned data which, if it existed, could only have related to the Blairs’ attempt to have […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] since A. J. P. Taylor managed a coherent account of the Austro-Hungarian empire in a single volume. Dorril has a general theme, perhaps two, but he doesn’t labour them: the diminution of Britain as a world power, and the way in which covert political operations attempted to oppose this, while at the same time […]