The Two Goulds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Here is some more detail. The back story Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 and 1979 tried to create an alliance of domestic interests – unions, state and employers – to manage the domestic […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] would act if, or when, peace terms were tabled was never clear. Beyond Parliament there were others whose attitude toward Churchill was less than whole-hearted. Sir Horace Wilson, the Head of the Home Civil Service, was known for his strongly anti-semitic views and had been a staunch supporter of Chamberlain’s policies pre-1939 remarking, ‘The […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] on that front. At the recent Labour Party conference, delegates were told that circumstances were so bad his government would have to do as much as Attlee, Wilson and Blair combined over a ten-year period. Which shows commendable realism. Consider though the advantages that each of those had: Attlee, Prime Minister of a country […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the Weather in 2025’, Air Force 2025, August 1996, at . 10 Kenney quoted in James R. Fleming, ‘The Climate Engineers: Playing God to Save the Planet’, Wilson Quarterly, Spring, 2007, p. 55. 11 Arnold A. Barnes, ‘Weather Modification: Test Technology Symposium ’97: Session B: Advanced Weapons/Instrumentation Technologies’, Air Force Materiel Command, 19 March […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pregentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] no-one 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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]

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