Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Revolution; and second, the series of internal inquiries into the place of intelligence in the British state.’ (p. 41) In 1919 . . . ‘The entire Secret Vote was worth less than one-tenth of the cost of a Royal Navy cruiser. Army Field Intelligence amounted to 0.1 per cent of the Army Estimates.’ (p. […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure Messrs. Tugendhat and Ellwood could be viewed as something of a dream ticket […]

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