Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright guy […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] the debate about trade union influence declining under Thatcher and Blair there are now more union sponsored MPs than there were in either the Attlee or Wilson eras. But what do the GMB (and other unions) get out of this? Why do they do it? The Labour Party Conference at Bournemouth in 2003 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] the ISTC steel-workers’ union 1953-67 and sometime member of the Labour Party’s national executive and TUC general council; Ray Gunter, Minister of Labour in the first two Wilson governments; Owen O’Brien, general secretary of the printers’ union SOGAT; Bill Sirs, another ISTC general secretary; and Sir Jack Smart, a former leader of Wakefield Council […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] March 2009, p .6 ‘Unearthing Britain’s Cold war nuclear history: the secret Chevaline project’, University of Nottingham press release, 25 June 2008 See also: Kristan Stoddart, ‘The Wilson Government and British responses to anti-ballistic Missiles, 1964-1970’, Contemporary British History, 23 (1), March 2009, pp. 1-33. For further information on Chevaline see James Harkin, ‘Middleman […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] on the Korean Biological Warfare Allegations’ by Milton Leitenberg, pp.185-196. A copy of the Bulletin is available free on request from: Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20523 tel: 202 691-4110 fax: 202 691 4184 Last time I checked, […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] your demise but I never thought you were for real. Provocative or provocateur, you decide. Beyond Parody On 5 September the novelist and Daily Telegraph columnist A.N. Wilson announced the end of his column on the Telegraph Website which apparently — I have never read it — parodied the Prime Minister. Wilson wrote: ‘My […]