Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] global strategy for humankind’. Another is ‘Defusing the causes of terror’. Yet if you look him up on Google you discover that he is a member of Labour Reform, the group – to which I briefly belonged – which has been trying, without success, to resist the Blair faction’s destruction of the Labour Party. […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] interests of brevity and not to bore your readers I will take up only a few but telling points. ‘The Wallace-Holroyd claim of having discussed smears on Labour politicians with Mr. Neave’. The simple fact is, Holroyd never met nor had any form of contact with Airey Neave. ‘The Independent has examined the original […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] amusing but entirely false. Au contraire, Dorril is a Freudo-anarchist, with Situationist tendencies; and Ramsay is a premature anti-Militant member of the soft old left of the Labour Party. For Ziegler we had produced ‘ the same old stew of half-facts and wild surmises…precious little added in the way of new ingredients…a dull book, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] business allies, in their quest to fundamentally transform the UK political landscape. This epic battle was the culmination of a long series of anti-trade union and anti- Labour actions, planned and executed by Nicholas Ridley and Margaret Thatcher. Their ambitious purpose was to weaken, or preferably confine to history, socialist or social democratic values […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] from Irish newspapers, and one in particular, the Sunday News. One of our Irish readers describes the Sunday News as ‘almost wholly Catholic..Nationalist … moderately Social Democratic Labour Party rather than moderately Republican.’ We have no way of checking the veracity of many (most) of these stories. We offer them because they are interesting; […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Stewart Lansley London: Politico’s, 2006, £18.99 The sight of the Rolling Stones arriving in China to perform a government-approved selection of songs coincided with my reading a chapter of Stewart Lansley’s fine new book entitled ‘Only little people pay taxes’. He recounts Bianca Jagger’s 1979 divorce revelation that her former husband was obsessed with […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] and Bermuda Triangles. In particular the concluding chapters in Part Seven, which I had the good sense to read first, are quite brilliant. Dorril rightly indicts New Labour for its craven cowardice and refusal, not only not to rein MI5/6 in, but actively to encourage them! In particular Robin Cook has ratted not only […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] translations of the Mao-Khrushchev conversations of 1958/9. Click on the ‘CWIHP Dossiers’ link on the CWIHP website http://cwihp.si.edu/dossiers.htm Anti-red spiels Lawrence Black’s ‘”The Bitterest Enemies of Communism”; Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, Autumn 2001) is a very interesting paper, (29 pages with 150 notes) which contains a lot of […]
