Londongrad – From Russia with cash

Lobster Issue

[…] We learn that some of the think-tanks benefited from oligarch largesse long before Alexander Lebedev bought more direct public influence by acquiring the London Evening Standard. The Rothschild family feature prominently in this story and the authors recount the warm welcome Ken Livingstone gave to the Russian influx in his days as Mayor of […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] most spectacular African assassinations and kidnappings of the 1960s – were now only too happy to assume a lower profile. Pompidou’s political patrons – most notably the Rothschild family with their huge complex of African investments – could, in future, have their corporations exploit this international milieu without governmental supervision. A similar process, culminating […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] and that William Armstrong, who had been moved from the Treasury about three years before to be Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department, and (Lord) Victor Rothschild, Head of the “Think Tank” (Central Policy Review Staff) set up by Heath were also going. When we arrived, Ted started by asking William – who […]

Londongrad

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] We learn that some of the think-tanks benefited from oligarch largesse long before Alexander Lebedev bought more direct public influence by acquiring the London Evening Standard. The Rothschild family feature prominently in this story and the authors recount the warm welcome Ken Livingstone gave to the Russian influx in his days as Mayor of […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted 
 (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Europa appeared, the Grand Lodge of Austria (at behest of Hertz) recommended it to freemasons internationally. Additional funding for the Pan European Union came from Baron Louis Rothschild and Max Warburg, both freemasons. By 1926 these connections had been noted by fellow Austrian, Adolf Hitler, who pronounced ‘What Coudenhove writes could have been written […]

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