A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] through the 1980s, Lobster engages with current issues; Northern Ireland, the 1984 Miners’ Strike, CND, GCHQ, Falklands. As the decade progressed, the scene develops; Airey Neave and Thatcher, the Hilda Murrell killing, Stalker, and the field widens on to hacking and what we might now call cyber-warfare, microwave and low frequency sonic weapons, and […]
[PDF file]: […] . . . I’m also anti-German. Anti-all-Europeans actually Oh yes – if I had my way I’d form my own party far more right wing than Margaret Thatcher I’d bring back National Service, the Scaffold, Reflecting on the who’s who of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, one is struck by how out of his […]
[PDF file]: […] letter he had written to the attorney-general in support of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, ‘Don’t let the buggers get you down’. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir’s 2012 […]
[PDF file]: […] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]
[PDF file]: […] developed to oppose the monetary orthodoxy that was used to first hobble the Labour Government of the 1970s and then to crucify the UK economy when Margaret Thatcher gave the UK monetarism at full throttle. Although he wrote articles from time to time in the London Review of Books,5 the task of fully articulating […]
[…] Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit of the covert state operations against Labour governments, the Labour Party and wider left seemed politically […]
[…] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]
[PDF file]: […] he would share with me. Some of it I recycled through The Rise of New Labour, and some through ‘Well, how did we get here?’ and ‘ Thatcher against the City’ in this issue. Storming teacups 2.0 I recently read on Stephen Dorril’s website his account of what he sees as his ouster from […]
[PDF file]: […] the day-to-day activities of Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. The output from the latter days of the COI come across, now, as being rather miserable. During the Thatcher years it was used to justify the dismantling and sale of national infrastructure, notably with the 1986 British Gas privatization adverts, which provided a cosy aesthetic […]
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