More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] – now available on T-shirts! – is; Question consensus reality. Well, amen to that. However, the bit of “consensus reality” – and Banner really means consensus his tory – which seems to be getting questioned most in the California of Mr Banner, is the existence of the Holocaust. Critique is slowly becoming a “Holocaust […]

The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] shown to be under Soviet control through Lord Rothschild” (notice the “it can be shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” s tory which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s […]

Price of Power

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Tories have always declined to say where the money came from, it is extraordinary that their opponents never adopted some variant of LBJ’s pig-fucker strategy. The s tory goes that LBJ was discussing how to attack an opponent in an election early in his career. The opponent was a farmer, and LBJ said, ‘Let’s […]

Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be an adequate explanation. Within days of the s tory tailing away Blair had sacked several members of his Cabinet, including Harriet Harman, one of his most devoted supporters. And as Blair’s team were battling to […]

The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] and was about to join the World Bank before he joined Brown. Sue Nye, Gordon Brown’s personal assistant, lives with Gavyn Davies, chief economist with the preda tory American bankers, Goldman Sachs. And then there’s Peter Mandelson. Via the United Nations Association, of all obscure vehicles, by the end of his final year at […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

Julian Amery Pre-war model Tory social imperialist who evoked enormous affection – even idolatry – in some quarters. Recent chair of the Pinay Circle. Laudatory obituaries in the House Magazine 7 October 1996, the Spectator 7 September 1996 and The Times 4 September 1996. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg (Obituary, Independent, 15 […]

South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983)

[…] 1983). Details of court proceedings (T. 21 April 1983). Appeal rejected (G. 8th June 1983). Evidence that Bertl was maybe not so innocent, and had links with Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a […]

The Blairs and their Court

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] them becoming ex-Labour Party members. More important, of course was not why Blair himself was a member of the Labour Party but how someone so obviously a Tory was able to become party leader and moreover transform Labour into a centre right party, into another, indeed, into the main British conservative party. The ‘New’ […]

Morningside Mata Haris: How MI6 deceived Scotland’s great and good

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…]   Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret his tory. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish League for European Freedom (SLEF). […]

Briefly

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] certainly has spent the time in the microfilm archives. But, for example, one index reference to North Sea oil? Garnett doesn’t know enough about British economic his tory (let alone parapolitics). But he’s not the first contemporary historian to have that blind spot, is he? It still surprises me that historians and political scientists […]

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