Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Government supplied more small arms to its Moslem Northern stooges than the British Army fired in the whole of World War Two. Search the memoirs of Lord Wilson, Lord Healey (directly responsible) and Lord Callaghan (deeply involved in planning the covert operations in Nigeria) and you will find black holocaust denial. Nor, sadly, will […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 19741976 in manoeuvres that aimed to replace the Wilson government with a non-party coalition. These were interesting times: the miners’ strikes of 1972 and 1974, triggered by years of disputes about pay and colliery closures, […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The Wilson ‘mystery’ again The first section of this about The Times appeared in a slightly different form under my name in Fortean Times. On 22 August The Times published the latest episode in the long-running saga of ‘Why did Harold Wilson resign as […]