The Party of Business and the Business of Parties

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call the tune? Only the misty-eyed romantics would believe for one moment […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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 […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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