Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] ‘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 REEFS EXPLORATION AND MINING CO LTD, WESTERN DEEP LEVELS LTD. CONSULTANT SEDGEWICK FORBES […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] Lipsey helped found the British American Project for the Successor Generation, a US-funded network to revive Atlanticism. He is now Lord Lipsey, a key figure in New Labour with its end of ideology, Third Way ‘pragmatism’. His network of influence is just one of many of continuing significance in the political and intellectual world […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] emphases are mine. In the second line of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] established in 1695 by the Scottish Parliament, he felt no need to decry state schooling. So up to the late fifties his sympathies were very much with Labour until it fell into hands of what he regarded as Wilson’s gang of spivs. His subsequent support for the Conservative Party was somewhat qualified and he […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes MP biographies; Parties; pressure groups; campaigns; agencies; Councils page; local election results; archive; UK politics newsgroups; links. LabourNet http://www.labournet.org/ International Labour Solidarity Website ‘promotes computer communications as a medium for building international labour solidarity’. Started Nov 1995 to support the sacked Liverpool dockers fight for reinstatement. International […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] something else I came across The CIA in Australia, a five-part transcript of 1986 Australian radio programmes on the CIA’s operation to get rid of the Whitlam Labour government in Australia in the 1970s. (Originally, Watching Brief, Public Radio News Services, Melbourne, Australia, October-November 1986.) This is interesting stuff: the best account I have […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] there would be some big news. Notes ‘Redacted’ in the parlance of the contemporary government information worker. This was the anonymous call received by George Wigg, the Labour MP, urging him to forget about Vassall the spy and look instead at Profumo. Wigg always claimed it was anonymous but there is good circumstantial evidence […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] of small items had been stolen from him at the address. In Martin Short’s Inside the Brotherhood (1989) Ken Livingstone is quoted as stating that half the Labour local councillors in some parts of London when he joined the Labour Party were Freemasons. He had no proof of this and later declined to provide […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] other staples to every Iraqi’.(22) What’s more, until sanctions and all the attendant misery and corruption, it was so prosperous that it was a net importer of labour, had a highly developed infrastructure, fabulous healthcare and superb universities. Which is to say, Iraq was never, ever, anything like Stalin’s Soviet Union. War intelligence, March […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated twentieth century British politics by never having any serious rivals on the right. Contrast the Liberal and Labour parties and at times, […]
