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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the power of the state. This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working of the NUM. But […]

The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] will of the party is void: Sturgeon is the party. The party payroll is as close to a cult as I have witnessed in mainstream UK politics. Thatcher experienced greater dissension within the Tories at the height of her popularity. There are two main schools of thought regarding Sturgeon’s inaction in progressing independence. * […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Well, well Under subhead Theorizing conspiracy below I noted that a British academic criminologist, Theo Kindynis, is arguing that the academic criminology world has to stop being afraid of the word conspiracy […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘enemy within’ story. See and . 9 5 believe, it’s difficult to be sure which – that Britain was in danger of becoming a Soviet satellite. Mrs Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, certainly believed something like this and, while Leader of the Opposition, tried to get the state to take the allegations about […]

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[…] Herb Meyer worked with David Hart and Brian Crozier in the 1980s peddling the ‘enemy within’ story. See and . 5 7 8 a Soviet satellite. Mrs Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, certainly believed something like this and, while Leader of the Opposition, tried to get the state to take the allegations about […]

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