Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no political interest that the Israeli […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s a media asset of the British Army, and Ryder portrays King as the man who showed the Labour Government in 1974 that the Ulster Workers’ Council general strike could not be resisted. Another perspective would put King in charge while the British Army and […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] political biography of the period. Not only was Milner in charge of running the country during the war (controlling food supplies, allocating manpower, economic planning, undermining the labour movement, etc.), but his acolytes surrounded Lloyd George, both in the Secretariat of the War Cabinet and in the PMs private office (the so-called Garden Suburb), […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] had enormous prestige. Worse, when the struggle for influence was at its most intense because Foreign Office power was being eroded in the short term by a Labour government mesmerised by corporate muscle demanding, among other things, commercial targets for diplomats, Spedding backed what he perceived to be SIS’s best interests – multinational patrons, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] friendship over 30 years with his protégé Alton – or the way that this Observer editor used his position and his closeness to key people in New Labour to keep his readers in the dark over matters of peace and war and much else under the Blair premiership. Preston practises deception by omission as […]
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. […]