Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] only which parties the rich support. His approach is unquestioningly conservative. This edition is an update of the author’s now classic book from 1981 on the his tory of the super-rich in Britain. It coincided with the rise of so-called ‘Thatcherism’, and with an academic debate around the apparent paradox of industrial decline and […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the s tory may have come from in the late forties. Kilgallen said if the story is true it would (one word illegible: cause?) terrible embarrassment to Jack and […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this s tory, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace’s biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] is meant to muddy the waters and confuse the investigations of two quite separate but still unsolved events. Finally, Murray offers us a jumbled but fascinating s tory about Searchlight editor Gerry Gable. We are told that in 1986 there was evidence of an attempt to abduct and kill Gable, who then spoke to […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] I intend to examine what vehicles for democratic accountability exist to rein in the activities of the intelligence agencies and secret police. It is a sorry s tory. The minute the flag of ‘national security’ is raised we are supposed to no longer think rationally and to refrain from asking questions. According to Mr […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] an exceptionally privileged background, who always regarded himself as one of Britain’s natural rulers and took for granted that he should play a great role in his tory. He was always a political opportunist, encumbered with very little principle, becoming increasingly reactionary from about 1912 onwards. He was, as far as his political colleagues […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside S tory, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] indication that there are continuities with anti-Left operations dating back to Heseltine and Crozier’s days. CER’s office is 29 Tufton Street, Westminster, which they share with the Tory Reform Group which contains Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, Lord Hurd, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and a host of other top Conservatives. The office is also used by the […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight. ‘Opium, tungsten, and the Search for National Security, 1940-52’, by Jonathan Marshall, in Journal of Policy His tory, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1991. (Published at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics USA, and, […]
