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 […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] has, apparently, marched on. So far there have been few reviews, and one of these (by M.R.D. Foot in The Times) snootily accuses Griffiths of revisionist his tory writing. Evidence now shows that a bigger than usually imagined section of MPs and Peers were willing to strike a deal with the Nazis in 1939/1940.(1) […]

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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS s tory inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a significant step for the […]

Thatcher’s People

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] matters — except Mrs Thatcher. The result is a fascinating account of how a tiny group of people, with a handful of elementary, core ideas, captured the Tory Party — and its attendant media. Much of the book is directly sourced to interviews with key individuals of the period, and even the bits attributed […]

It’s all Jacques to me

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] federalism, coalitions and community. That club has perhaps eighteen months more in the sun at most (the cleverest will do a David Freud and switch to the Tory Party) and is then set to be replaced by their Tory equivalents. They are ageing, they have failed and been seen to fail in their analyses; […]

The Angolan hostages episode, and more …

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] group, to transport arms and supplies to Unita. (British Intelligence and Covert Action p193). When Savimbi visited Britain in 1980, Lonrho paid for expensive receptions hosted by Tory MP Edward Du Cann, a Lonrho director, at which Savimbi met Tory MPs. Unita’s links to South Africa, a source of arms and finance, are well […]

Branson

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99   After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale than … Read more

Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] experience in 1974 should have been enough. But things are more desperate now and those who took the decision set their minds on the rewards which vic tory would give them, for this victory would open the way to a more total onslaught on the entire working class and the trade unions – the […]

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