[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 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 […]
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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] those individuals as “Communists”, undermined their authority within their respective organisations and they were replaced by hardline militants. It is likely that those anti-Communist activities also helped to colour the population’s attitude to the incoming Labour Government, led by Harold Wilson, in February 1974, and hampered that Government’s political initiatives.’ 8 No such party existed.
[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]
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 […]
