[…] pages of the PWR catalogue of articles, magazines, audio and video tapes for purchase. Unreservedly recommended. Contact them at the Centre for the Preservation of Modern His tory, PO Box 23511, California 93121; tel 805 899 3433; fax 805 899 4773. US subs are $25 for 4 issues; better inquire for subs outside the […]
[…] Indeed, New Labour may still pull a rabbit out of a hat and be returned to power – which really would be a damning indictment of the Tory or, indeed, any alternative. But what if New Labour’s drive for power over a decade ago has broken the system more fundamentally? What if all it […]
Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins … Read more
[…] how could the NUM leadership think it a good idea to appeal to Libyan and Soviet ‘trade unions’ for support? If you want to challenge a right-wing Tory government lead by a cold warrior, the one thing you should not do is publicly ally yourself with that government’s betes noires .(4) 1984/5 The miners’ […]
[…] transmitted live and be open-ended. The conversation finishes when the guests decide, not when TV people make them stop. This combination – still unique in the his tory of television – produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules […]
[…] with that in the Secret Intelligence Service. Since he chose to include this entry in his diary, he is giving his readers a hint that the s tory about him being in SIS is true. Does disinformation work? In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I commented on the disinformation project Operation Horseshoe, a purported Serb […]
[…] the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to be repeated: ‘The Labour apparatchiks swallowed whole the late Tory view that the public does not exist……. everyone is a customer; all services and professions are businesses.’ The public did seem to exist as protests against […]
[…] was released from his war duties in the Royal Naval Air Service. He soon struck up a working relationship with Henry Page Croft, a tariff reform/anti-Indian self-government Tory MP. Soon afterwards Page Croft was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Hertford (was this a coincidence?), split from Lloyd George’s coalition and launched the National Party. Their […]
[…] was the 20 page offering by Steve Brady to Pearce dated 23 February 1986. In it he outlined many of the criticisms of the NF’s recent trajec tory, including: the use of ‘pseudo-revolutionary sloganisings’ (p. 8), in particular the ideas of Corneliu Codreanou (p. 17), and the rhetoric of the ‘political soldier’, seen as […]
[…] became aware that the conventional narrative structure which is used to give sense and meaning to British politics was extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but […]
