Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] family in particular: its immense industrial power and suspect financial dealings and the undermining of the German people by its industrial policy of employing Slavs as cheap labour. The Wittgensteins were also Hitler’s enemies in the world of music, for they had adopted the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim, whom Wagner abhorred. Hitler followed Wagner […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] 20, proposed by Griffin and seconded by Anderson). Given there was little practical outcome concerning the policy of a ‘Return to the Land’, save perhaps for free labour being carried out by NF members to renovate various properties owned by Nick Griffin over the years, it hardly needs consideration here. It is noteworthy that […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] ‘fringe patriots’ in World War One and thereafter; relations with the Tories; and the twin tensions between social reform and nationalism and the interests of capital and labour. The chapter on Oswald Mosley is a fine distillation of what remains pertinent in his political traject-ory, surpassed only by the exemplary consideration of Social Credit […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] 1 per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] anything positive and the minutes of the Cabinet meeting at which MI5 presented their evidence are still suppressed. Charles Higham, as always, is certain: Pressed by the Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee, he (Churchill) instantly acted to destroy the entire group that was planning a negotiated peace with Hitler.’ (8) Higham lists the consequences: […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] already taken all this on board. The people who ought to read this – in this country the naive enthusiasts for the ‘American way’ in the Parliamentary Labour Party, in the media (for example the idiotic Jonathan Freedland) and among the junior policy wonks feeding Tony Blair’s illusions – will not do so. There […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] and political trends in Australia and South East Asia. He outlined to them the strategy to bring Robert Hawke to power.. He forecast that Hawke would be Labour Leader by late 1982 and Prime Minister by 1983. Hawke would also be in power for ten years and not for one term. (Hawke PM John […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] seriously.Incidentally, Count Otto von Hapsburg, the diplomat who the authors claim to be a member of the Priory, also features in the conspiracy theories of the US Labour Party. The belief in sinister and mysterious bodies that are deliberately spreading diseases is a very clear link between the witch mania of the Reformation and […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] delivery is spook-proof. Does disinformation work? It does with some journalists. Take Andrew Rawnsley and his lavishly praised Servants of the People: the Inside Story of New Labour (London: Penguin, 2001). On pp. 256 and 7 he gives us a thumbnail sketch of the events leading to the NATO attack on Serbia over Kosovo. […]
