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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] member of the Round Table) on September 14, he finally wrote a memo on Zionism itself, pointing out the narrow basis of its support in Britain: Lord Rothschild and Samuel being its main backers. Montagu listed virtually every Jew prominent in British public life some 46 individuals (including members of Rothschilds and Samuels […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] bureaucracy and on the board of Policy Network, the plaything of his old mate and EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson. Funding Policy Network is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, and sitting alongside Liddle on the board are Third Way guru Lord Giddens, Lord Kinnocks old kitchen cabinet pair, Patricia Hewitt and Charles Clarke, and the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] movement should have been acceptable to a politician with Gladstone’s record. But he was frightened, along with most of the political and financial elite in London. Lord Rothschild, having presided over a reorganisation of the debt in 1879, began to panic, as did the sixty members of Parliament whose personal fortunes were tied up […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] insists on calling the RIS (Russian Intelligence Service) but has virtually no evidence to back up this view. There is some speculation about the allegiance of Lord Rothschild which has been floating around in certain sections of the British Right for about 45 years since the late and unlamented Kenneth de Courcy first alleged […]