The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Sachs personnel involved with the Obama administration is at < http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/46267>. 18 Despite the recent flurry of low-level activity by the British FSA. See, for example, Harry Wilson, ‘FSA charges seven over “£2.5m insider-trading ring” , Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2010. 121 Summer 2010 comment is from the generally excellent Washington’s blog: ‘The Senate […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] national happiness peaked’, The Independent, 17 March 2004 at or . 15 The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] split apparent in the aftermath of the World War One between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ internationalists, then all largely based on the East Coast. As followers of Woodrow Wilson, the liberals believed in the US as a global hegemon, bringing peace and democracy, through its leading role in the League of Nations. The ‘conservative internationalists’, […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] you know but who you See: . Our editor also makes reference to this in his recent book review of Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson or . 16 See the second item of my ‘South of the Border’ in that issue . 17 18 See . 19 See . 5 know.20 […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Prisoner Number Seven in Spandau when the medical care of the prisoners had never been the responsibility of the US Army. I sent their questions to Emily Wilson, editor of New Scientist, in the hope that ‘the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine’ might undertake the gathering of some answers. Like Prime Minister […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] effect. Not since George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, ran for the Presidency in 1968 had ‘a presidential candidate spoken in this way. Not since Woodrow Wilson had such an outspoken racist occupied the White House’. (p. 87) And on top of that he appealed to the notion of masculinity that had gripped […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘ Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. These days it doesn’t seem so significant. Would the average MP today be more afraid of the Daily […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] my copy. Apart from other subtle changes, specifically, the intelligence section was removed. It was too late, I had the genuine copy, verified by Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, formerly on the political staff at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he had examined and verified the authenticity of the CIA report. He was a senior British […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 2019 . economy under Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron disregarded and avoided this terminology, few now remember such language as being solidly mainstream and commonplace under Wilson and Heath. Nor do many realize that such views remain standard across the EU. Corbyn’s economic policies are not, of course, based on the consensus that […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] my copy. Apart from other subtle changes, specifically, the intelligence section was removed. It was too late, I had the genuine copy, verified by Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, formerly on the political staff at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he had examined and verified the authenticity of the CIA report. He was a senior British […]

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