The Searchlight saga continued

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] like neo-nazi occasionally back-fires. In January the Sunday Express ran a piece headlined ‘Traitors: the ultra-right Tories who plotted against Major’ – a piece recycled in the Labour Party-supporting Tribune (18 February, 1994 under the predictable heading of ‘Major’s Militants’). It didn’t amount to much: a branch of the Tory Party had passed a […]

Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the IMF

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] sell as when it was offered as world revolution. Notes 1 This, presumably, is the ‘real internationalism’ so often referred to but hardly ever defined by the Labour left. On this see the examples given in Lobster 33 pp.2/3. 2 If the American anti-globalisation left could hold its collective nose long enough to actually […]

The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with Labour left-wing MP Diane Abbott, at her home in Hackney – an odd call for the broker of a big arms deal to make. All these items […]

It’s the economy, stupid

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] situation. In the final chapter there are also policy alternatives to the present shambles which are not a million miles away from the economic nationalism of the Labour left of the 1970s. Some form of economic nationalism, dressed up as ‘green’ economics or not, is the only viable alternative that I can see. But […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] liaisons with extreme right-wing organisations outside of Asia, including American groups that formed part of the KMT’s ‘China lobby’, (144) the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN),(145) National Labour Union, or NTS, (146) and an umbrella group for Latin American ultras called the Confederacion Interamericana de Defensa del Continente (CIADC).(147) The growing cooperation which ensued […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] eyebrows and the ears seem similar. Though Wright became a fairly run-of-the-mill, right-wing, communist-obsessed conspiracy theorist, when younger he taught in the Workers Educational Association and voted Labour in 1945. (Spycatcher pp.30 and 31) He came from the middle class, and he suffered – he thought – at the hands of incompetent prats from […]

The View From the Bridge: Gerry Gable. Melita Norwood. Kosovo. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the broadcasting regulations – yet another falsehood.’ I have no sympathy for Robin Cook who has turned out to be at least as useless as any other Labour Minister, but readers of this column may remember that in issue 36 I described how Pilger had sent me a long letter and demanded I publish […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] second is the extracts from the 1974 diary of Peter Cadogan which describe his contacts with G.K. Young during the period when Young was machinating against the Labour Government with his Unison Committee for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British […]

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer…Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public […]

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