[…] There’s also a fair sprinkling of ‘private information’ and ‘personal knowledge’. Thus John Bruce Lockhart’s entry for former Deputy Chief of MI6 and founder of Unison and Tory Action in the 1970s George Kennedy Young (‘…an outstanding figure with his great height red hair…’) rather magnanimously depicts him as ‘…at heart a militant Scottish […]
[…] by unelected businessmen and security specialists. King called this a ‘businessman’s government’ and Gordon Brown calls it ‘a government of all the talents’. King’s significance in his tory is that he predicted the kind of government that a declining British capitalism would need to facilitate hegemony under the long-term conditions of the coercive state. […]
[…] and straight dealing with journalists. Hobsbawn was the organiser of the Washington Embassy party for her pals in the British American Project after New Labour’s election vic tory in 1997. ‘Big Swing to BAP’ was the headline on the BAP newsletter recording the result of the Blair campaign which Hobsbawn had helped fund and […]
[…] how could the NUM leadership think it a good idea to appeal to Libyan and Soviet ‘trade unions’ for support? If you want to challenge a right-wing Tory government lead by a cold warrior, the one thing you should not do is publicly ally yourself with that government’s betes noires .(4) 1984/5 The miners’ […]
[…] Indeed, New Labour may still pull a rabbit out of a hat and be returned to power – which really would be a damning indictment of the Tory or, indeed, any alternative. But what if New Labour’s drive for power over a decade ago has broken the system more fundamentally? What if all it […]
Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins … Read more
[…] was the 20 page offering by Steve Brady to Pearce dated 23 February 1986. In it he outlined many of the criticisms of the NF’s recent trajec tory, including: the use of ‘pseudo-revolutionary sloganisings’ (p. 8), in particular the ideas of Corneliu Codreanou (p. 17), and the rhetoric of the ‘political soldier’, seen as […]
[…] transmitted live and be open-ended. The conversation finishes when the guests decide, not when TV people make them stop. This combination – still unique in the his tory of television – produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules […]
[…] with that in the Secret Intelligence Service. Since he chose to include this entry in his diary, he is giving his readers a hint that the s tory about him being in SIS is true. Does disinformation work? In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I commented on the disinformation project Operation Horseshoe, a purported Serb […]
[…] the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to be repeated: ‘The Labour apparatchiks swallowed whole the late Tory view that the public does not exist……. everyone is a customer; all services and professions are businesses.’ The public did seem to exist as protests against […]
