Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] quickly. This has been a long campaign on Merseyside in which an enormous amount of educational activities have been going on. When the Police Authority came to vote on the issue even the magistrates voted for the refusal! Chris Pounder, who has been acting as an adviser to the Merseyside Police Authority on this […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] immediately it began to slip away from the politicians’ concept. In September 1948 the first head, Ralph Murray, suggested transferring part of the costs to the secret vote. ‘The need to recruit specialist staff, free from the limitations of civil service pay and conditions’ was ‘one of the considerations’. More importantly, ‘In addition, the […]

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] the East End of London, the fact remains, as Dorril points out, that the BUF could not elect a single councillor, let alone an MP. Its highest vote was in Bethnal Green in March 1937 when a BUF council candidate got 23% of the vote. From this point of view, the role of anti-Semitism […]

Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, is a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Mandy’s place in things On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal. The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked except […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] far to the right. There’s not much of a living to made in America by being a lefty writer, is there? Hitchens’ writing is collected at . Vote fraud 2004 Meanwhile, more or less unreported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of the Republican theft of the 2004 […]

The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] on the Riviera. I love Cafarkis. And liver.’ ‘Mary Jo’s intestines were chopped into hors d’ouevres – wafers for brave, free Americans who support us and will vote me queen. Courtesy of Ma and Pa Kopechne, who clutch Cushing’s crosses saying “We don’t care if it was murder. We are satisfied.” On to Fatima […]

England and the Aeroplane

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] of the 1950s and 60s he describes had so little influence that it was unable to prevent both the Heath and Thatcher governments from deregulating the City of London — and wrecking the manufacturing economy. Or, more interestingly perhaps, how it was that the Tories persuaded the manufacturing turkeys to repeatedly vote for Christmas… RR

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] the British motor industry with a campaign of strikes.’ You can just see it, can’t you? Presumably it went something like this. Voice from floor: ‘Move the vote’. Chair: ‘Those in favour of destroying the British car industry please show.’ Fairly typically, Wright doesn’t bother to date this meeting, though from the context it […]

What Price National Security?

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more

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