Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] and that in 1977 the file was acquired – impounded might be appropriate – by MI5.2 In this period MI5 contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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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, […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] record, he indicated that he was happy with that and added: ‘When we hear of undercover Police having long-term relationships with animal rights activists (and even Harold Wilson being bugged by MI5 lest he was a Soviet mole) it is quite clear that the State reserves the right to monitor pressure groups or political […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] be a candid friend, as Sydney Blumenthal was for Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State; as the late Maurice Oldfield was for Prime Minister Harold Wilson, warning him of the danger and futility of joining America in Vietnam;4 and as the MOD’s Defence Intelligence Staff was prior to the invasion of Iraq, […]
