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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 […]

The meaning of the 2009 Budget

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end 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’, […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] the 1918-1939 period. Robert Lansing was the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. It is not at all clear how much either Lansing or Woodrow Wilson knew about central and eastern Europe. The Lansing Declaration was made during the US mid-term Congressional Elections. In the last act of the cataclysm favoured by […]

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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] Express would publish them on the eve of the next election. Gaitskell made his conference speech and died shortly afterwards. Beaverbrook died in 1964, the year Harold Wilson became prime minister. Twigged There was scarcely a hiccup in the largely tax-funded career of Stephen Twigg after the junior education minister lost his Enfield Southgate […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Links to other National, European and International archive resources, eg Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Cold War International History Project http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm ‘CWIHP was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1991. The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of […]

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