Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. The cry that intelligence services are useless is a variation on the more specific […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not its documented involvement in the Thatcher era ‘think-tanks’. There’s not a word on the British American Project and other welldocumented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Israel to open the Rothschild-funded Supreme Court building later that year.128 Jacob was among the guests to the exclusive annual Hollinger dinner in 1998, alongside Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.129 Despite Black’s legal troubles he retained his contacts with the Rothschilds: […]

The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] shallow and temporary. (pp. 2/3) The author traces this well-footnoted and indexed history with academic rigour and journalistic anecdote. He shows how the free-market evangelists of the Thatcher and Reagan era repeated the myth that the great prize for a widening gap would be faster growth and a new economic dynamism that would raise […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Collin in his Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, Staines said of David Hart: ‘He’s completely charming and can charm senior people like Thatcher for a while. But any proximity to him for a long period of time, you know he’s completely off his fucking head.’ 31 Perhaps it was […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nearly thirty years, she started trying to tell her story in 2003, apparently motivated by disgust at the covert sale of arms to Saddam Hussein under Margaret Thatcher and by utter despair at the aggressive foreign policy of Ariel Sharon and the Likud regime in Israel. Sharon’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon killed her lover. […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him the previous week. ‘Go’ I said, ‘and go now’. ‘It’s always […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds […]

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