Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: The ‘ Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq Will Banyan N ow that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military ‘contractors’ remain), an accounting of the ‘Global War […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] demonstrated the need for social and political change in Britain. From 1963 onwards, after Blunt’s outing by Michael Straight, curiously coinciding with Philby’s by Flora 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 […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] Mulgan. The conference, the Times told us, was held in ‘the Elizabethan splendour of Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire’. In The Sunday Times of 22 September 2002, ‘ Rothschild bankrolls Mandelson think tank’, we learned that Mandelson’s Policy Network is being funded by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, the multi-millionaire banker, apparently to the tune of […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] including Camus. But Sartre refused an invitation to meet Ayer, saying simply, ‘Ayer est un con’ (Ayer’s a cunt). Ayer was living in some style: Guy de Rothschild lent him the family mansion on the Avenue Foch, the one in which Victor Rothshild, Guy’s cousin, had recently suggested to Malcolm Muggeridge and Kim Philby […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain […]