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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 edited by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1996 £29.50 As the title suggests this really contains two separate though not unrelated areas. The first is a series of shortish essays about so-called think tanks in the UK which follow on from […]
Many thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions to Shayler case and human rights David Shayler went on trial at the Old Bailey in October/ November 2002 for disclosing information and documents relating to security and intelligence, under s1(1) and 4(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989. During the trial he was […]
[…] this period. Yet despite the massive detail there are obvious things missing from Lucas’s account. Most striking is the tiny space devoted to the role of US labour unions and transnational labour bodies created and run by the US. This is surprising, for their activities in the immediate post WW2 period strongly support his […]
[…] 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, […]
