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’, […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 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 Chancellor […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the Realm (London: Allen Lane, 2009) writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 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 […]

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 […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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, […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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.

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

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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 […]

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