Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Giles Scott-Smith,(1) who wrote about the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Lobster 36 and 38, has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher’s first visit to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] Board, Schumacher was a socialist who, according to his close friend and colleague George McRobie, believed that his hand would drop off if ever he cast a vote for the Conservatives. He distrusted another major figure who emerged in the organic and environmental movement at this time, Edward Goldsmith, partly on account of his […]
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, PO Box 5, Alamo, CA 94507, USA $28 plus $4 shipping in the US. Outside the US inquire first at 1-800-247-7389 (phone) 925- 295-1203 (fax) This is the successor to Stich’s Defrauding America, reviewed in Lobster 34. As with the earlier work, it is impossible to verify and difficult … Read more
[…] elections. (For all their chatter about ‘mould breaking’ and the centre ground, the effect of the SDP was utterly divisive and destructive.) The splitting of the anti-Tory vote on these two occasions was so significant that no political party, under even brilliant leadership, could have gone from where Labour was in 1983 to forming […]
[…] recognition of Mr Ian Smith’s regime as the legal government…. The society has been seriously divided for months and earlier, a meeting of branch chairmen…. passed a vote of no confidence in the council’.(19) In retrospect this was an ominous omen for the the Monday Club which, like the ARS, acted as “a bridge” […]
[…] movement of capital, the global role of the City and the international status of sterling as (then) the world’s leading reserve currency. They tended to be Anglican, vote Conservative, send their children to the public schools and Oxbridge and to live in the London suburbs and the Home Counties. By the second half of […]
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
