Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order […]
Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New […]
Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]
According to the Dublin magazine Magill (August 1984), Frank Terpil was ‘kicked out’ of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at […]
[…] they sent him a telegram offering their support and sympathy – they could not believe he was guilty. Wickham-Boynton and Arroyo were friends of Lord MONTAGU. Angus Wilson (Tony Garrett) Felsham Woodside Bradfield St. George Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Tel Rattlesden 200 This is Sir Angus Wilson, the distinguished novelist, who was born on […]
[…] me recently, Miller was conspicuous by his absence from Smear!– an oversight, nothing more interesting – though he does get a brief mention in Ben Pimlott’s Harold Wilson. Miller was one of those slightly rogueish, dodgy businessmen for whom Wilson had a penchant, and who ingratiated themselves with him by providing the Labour Party […]
[…] London. Robin Ramsay Ware on Wallace I became aware of John Ware when he joined the side of the sceptics about Colin Wallace during the great Wallace-Wright- Wilson plots events of 1987. Ware had been one of the many journalists who went to interview Colin Wallace at his home in Arundel that year. Rather […]
[…] 955. Southwood and Flanagan, p. 59. Crouch, p. 114. Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to U.N.). Cf. Forbes Wilson, The Conquest of Copper Mountain (New York: Atheneum, 1981), pp. 153-55. Declassifed Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to […]
