Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Recollections of an errant politician

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] money’; and, unusually honest for a politician, he notes: ‘So bad was the economic situation inherited by Labour in 1974…………it would have been a miracle if the Wilson and Callaghan administrations that followed had been able to correct it in a short five years.’ (p. 146) He gives a fairly detailed account of the […]

Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] subscription can be ordered with Visa/Mastercard by calling 1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802 or by e-mail. Or a check can be sent to The Media Consortium, Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. Gary Webb, whose articles on the ‘Dark Alliance’ kicked the contra/CIA/cocaine story into public consciousness and his career as a journalist into […]

More forgeries

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year Ken Livingstone’s talk was entirely about the Wilson government and the destabilisation campaign. Made Watergate look like taking candy from a child, I think was the expression. Ken for leader. American Congress for Irish […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] http://www.schnews.org.uk/hotstuff/gandalf/index.htm SchNEWS update, with details of the July 1998 appeal, when the ‘gandalf 3’ had their convictions overturned. (See elsewhere in this issue.) Blackops http://gate.cruzio.com/~blackops/ Robert Anton Wilson and Miriam Joan Hill’s Encyclopaedia of Conspiracy Homepage. Conspiracies listed from A (AIDS, Anti-gravity, James Angleton) to Z (Zapatistas, Phil Zimmerman and PGP, Protocols of the […]

Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, is worth noting for the final three in which Kenneth O. Morgan on Wilson, editor Tiratsoo on the 1970s and Paul Hirst on the Thatcher period, firmly reject the conventional neo-liberal/Thatcherite redemption drama of slow descent through the sixties into […]

Ken Livingstone’s questions

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] No: D 7364 C. I. A. This Certificate of Credentials is issued under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is requested that the bearer be afforded the necessary help to enable him to satisfactorily discharge his duties. 15 November 1971: Harold Wilson visits Northern Ireland. Briefing officer J. C. Wallace listens with interest.

Socialist Renewal publications

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw’s briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Renewal, new series, number 8, £3.00 ‘Jack Straw’s briefing’ is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US ‘star wars’ missile defence system. Coates’ title comes from current US military ‘doctrine’, […]

Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] is a good 1930s word which fits rather well. Britain as another US protectorate? (5) Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to […]

Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] directed into such a policy at the whim of one man and his coterie? Because our political system has undergone a quiet revolution, that is why. Harold Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real […]

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