Robin Ramsay, editor

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[…] the current editor. For contact details click here. Books by Robin Ramsay Politics and Paranoia (Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin […]

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed for ten […]

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Training other people’s police forces

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] organisation all other development aid is at risk.” Currently no formal restrictions exist on the countries from which police officers might come for training. During the last Labour administration the then Minister of Overseas Development, Judith Hart, introduced a system of personal ministerial vetting, refusing to allow officers into the UK for training if […]

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Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

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 […]

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The View from the Bridge

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. […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] and one the much vaunted razor-sharp minds at the Treasury didn’t see. Why was Britain not in Vietnam? In a Sunday Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

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 […]

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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Recollections of an errant politician

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] junior minister in the Treasury during the Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott saw […]

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Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] has come from David Shayler who is at the centre of this book. It is easy to forget what an important source Shayler has been. Publicly, the Labour government totally failed to take Shayler’s information on board and swore allegiance to the sanctity and virtue of our secret servants. (But privately, who knows?) Even […]

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A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] League and its forebears, such as the British Commonwealth Union. (But this section omits the fact that these groups were initially formed not just to oppose organised labour and the left but also to fight for the interests of domestic manufacturing against the interests of the City. The struggle with globalisation began a long […]

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