ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mafia and people like pirate radio boss Ronan O’Rahilly (see below in the text) clearly had powerful advocates. 22 On why Thorpe was preferred: through 1969 both Wilson (PM) and Heath (Leader of the Opposition) were polling very badly whilst the Liberal Party were at 15%, and won the Birmingham (Ladywood) bye-election in June […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue

[…] influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start Page 89 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

Lobster Issue

[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

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 […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] that Progress is new Labour’s shock troops was a bit too much.’ The Progress strategy board includes Mandelson and Tony Blair’s successor in the Sedgefield constituency, Phil Wilson MP.5 Mandelson’s long-time associate, vice-chair of his Policy Network and frequent Guardian columnist, Patrick Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) […]

Hess DNA: Round 14

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] London SE1 9LS March 20, 2020 Questions Arising from the New Scientist article of January 22, 2019: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’ Dear Ms Wilson, I would like to bring to your attention an article published recently by one of the authors of the research paper that formed the basis of […]

ValentinePiscesCIA

Lobster Issue

[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

Lobster Issue

[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 34 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]

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