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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

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[…] one Q and A. Peter: What surprised you most when you were researching the book? Simon: The degree and the shamelessness with which politicians and especially the Tory party were taking money from autocracies, or people with links to autocracies – and then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Tweeting: ‘Thank you to all those who supported me and believed in #ACleanStart. This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] provides a very thorough dissection and analysis of Britain’s long relationship with the Gulf states, one which goes back a long way. Well aware of this his tory, Wearing explains that British influence there went through three phases. The first started in the heyday of Empire, when Britain was the world’s superpower and influence […]

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[…] one Q and A. Peter: What surprised you most when you were researching the book? Simon: The degree and the shamelessness with which politicians and especially the Tory party were taking money from autocracies, or people with links to autocracies – and then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] an era of high-spending Keynesian interventionism. Sedgemore was one of Callaghan’s casualties, losing his seat in Luton West by 246 votes (despite increasing his own support) to Tory Monday Club member John Carlisle. Financial salvation came via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, […]

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

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[…] or . Considering his apparent significance, Lyalin got strikingly little coverage – less than a page – in Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky’s KGB: The Inside S tory (1990). 15 5 From what LYALIN has said, there can be little doubt that whilst taking account of the risks of attribution and escalation, the Department […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: Failed Führers: A His tory of Britain’s Extreme Right Graham Macklin London: Routledge, 2020, £24.99, pb John Newsinger Failed Führers is a volume in the Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right series. At the moment there are almost 60 volumes in the series, already published or forthcoming. The handful that I have […]

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