[PDF file]: […] on the other’ that were opening up in the 1960s, one other sign of which was the secret and treacherous right-wing plotting that went on against Harold Wilson at this time. (Not that there’s any evidence that he was involved in that.) So far as Aden and the rest of the Empire were concerned, […]
[PDF file]: Scott Newton The Lost Peace How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War Richard Sakwa New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023 Sovereign Internationalism Lobster readers may already be familiar with the work of Richard Sakwa, whose Frontline Ukraine was reviewed in the summer of 2019.1 That book discussed the growing tensions […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘ Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by now. Our lives may depend upon it. Secrecy is also, of course, the enemy of the historian. It […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a crusty old spook confirmed the accuracy of […]
[PDF file]: The crisis: an historical perspective Scott Newton Introduction A s a student at Cambridge in the mid-1970s I was fortunate enough to be taught by a great medieval historian – Walter Ullman. Ullman liked to say that the task of the historian was to explain ‘how and why we came to be where we are […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] a meeting with my then MP, Roland Moyle, to discuss attempts by the Intelligence Services in Northern Ireland during 1974 to discredit various political figures, including Harold Wilson. The 1981 destruction of documents may also be significant. That was the year that three staff members, including the Tara leader, William McGrath, of the Kincora […]
[PDF file]: […] with much the same texture.) He quickly concluded that Arthur Scargill, at that time emerging as a leader of the miners, was ‘too egotistical and reckless’. Harold Wilson was ‘an unprincipled, slippery customer who was not to be trusted’. He took ‘the CIA tour’ of the USA with Neil Kinnock in 1975 soon after […]
[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 […]
