Robin Ramsay, editor

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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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 […]

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 […]

Obituaries

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 […]

The secret of the 1917 ‘Balfour declaration’

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 PM’s private office (the so-called ‘Garden Suburb’), […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

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, […]

All the news that fits

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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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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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