The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were partly responsible. That is […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] know that the Texas Congressman’s success in obtaining enormous finance and sophisticated weaponry for the Mujahdineen was strongly promoted by the Israeli lobby in Washington to which Wilson was very close.41 Mujahdineen training by the US, UK and Israel as part of well-funded Operation Cyclone is a matter of record. One assumes that Blunkett, […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] under the control of Russian agents did not have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the story as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid by Moscow to advance communism in Britain’. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and conspicuously flunked the central question: had the Army checked with the politicians before it decided to go and shoot some of the bog-wogs?1 0 * Bill Wilson MSP For much of the developing world the basic message is this: challenge America and it bombs and shells you with depleted uranium (DU), irradiating you, […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] that elements within the US state wanted to use the crisis to get rid of the Labour Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 6 For Whittome see Denis Healey, The Time of My Life, (London: Michael Joseph, 1989) p. 431. […]

finklestein 1976

Lobster Issue

[…] that elements within the US state wanted to use the crisis to get rid of the Labour Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 6 For Whittome see Denis Healey, The Time of My Life, (London: Michael Joseph, 1989) p. 431. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] was an interesting piece in one of the Daily Telegraph blogs, Ed West’s ‘My local Tory party has just died. What the hell is going on?’ Bill Wilson MSP For much of the developing world the basic message is this: challenge America and it bombs and shells you with depleted uranium (DU), irradiating you, […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] De Gaulle’s veto of the UK’s bid – ‘by 1970’. On file are notes of Lemass’s talks with Duncan Sandys (mainly about Cyprus and peace-keeping operations), Harold Wilson (highly generalised with Wilson not making specific commitments, or positive suggestions) and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (on trade and Europe, with Douglas-Home not saying very […]

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