The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] Edward Hulton (publisher of the Picture Post and part of one of the earliest British intelligence news fronts);23 • Admiral Lord Cunningham; • and Field Marshall Lord Wilson. This unlikely grouping was unstable and at the end of 1956 Smith, Fothergill, Edwards, Ammon and others resigned, alleging, inter alia, that Common Cause was becoming […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster *new* All Trussed up On the day that Prime Minister Truss made her announcement about dealing with the energy crisis here, The Times (8 September) briefly mentioned (on p. 39) that the […]

[PDF file]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster. *new* Bilderbergers Tony Gosling sent out the list of those attending this year’s Bilderberg meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] noone has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, the 1974-79 period, since Stephen Dorril and I wrote Lobster 11 and the expansion of that material in Smear! Wilson and the Secret State; and they were published in 1986 and 1991, before the Internet. What could be done these days with Google and Nexis-Lexis? A […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] journals abroad, including Britain’s moderate-left Encounter – the list goes on. The CIA has been widely suspected of further plots, against Australia’s Gough Whitlam and Britain’s Harold Wilson, for example; which couldn’t easily be dismissed as paranoid when all these other things were going on, and look even more plausible today. In the Wilson […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

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[PDF file]: […] government.4 There is no sign this will be introduced. Finally, the UK lacks a written constitution – again, a unique feature – and no precise role 3 Wilson took 48% of the vote in 1966. A case can be made that Wilson and Heath were the last two successful consensus politicians in the UK, […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

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[PDF file]: All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century Alwyn Turner London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

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[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] the coming ‘Second Civil War’. Here in the Redoubt an authoritarian theocracy will be established after the great cataclysm. Among the adherents of this movement is Doug Wilson, who founded Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has its own day school, college and a media centre that spreads 8 the message. Wilson has […]

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