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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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). […]
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 […]