Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Brandt was an emigre and therefore suspect in many eyes. This was used in 1961 when, in one of the dirtiest political campaigns in post-war Germany, the conservative CDU/CSU parties called Brandt “a traitor to the fatherland”. Nazi propaganda that emigres were untrustworthy had a lasting effect. This unease even extended into the West’s […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Votescam (again) Reading the papers and listening to the radio in the days immediately after Bush’s election victory brought home what a parallel universe we – readers of magazines like Lobster – are living in. Here we had an enormous election surprise: despite many of the pre-election polls in the last few days of the … Read more

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Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

Watergate revisited: Hougan’s Secret Agenda Introduction No apologies for returning to Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda. As Steve Dorril said in Lobster 8, this is a major event. This essay is in two parts. In the first I make some critical remarks about Secret Agenda’s central theses; In the second I speculate about other items on […]

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The Pinay Circle

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] English and this may explain what appear to be errors. The Pinay Circle is an informal group which meets twice a year in different locations. It includes conservative and anti-communist politicians, journalists, bankers etc., and occasional guests, all of whom originally gravitated around former French President Pinay. A meeting took place at the Madison […]

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Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] son, Nicholas, this always rankled: he ‘had seen little active combat, and this played on his mind’. His subsequent entry into the House of Commons as a Conservative MP owed considerably less to his war record than it did to his affairs with the wives of prominent Tories and the connections and contacts this […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] a nuclear arms race, the Cold War was under way. It might therefore be supposed that Kennan was a supporter of the Vietnam War, of the neo- Conservative revolution in foreign policy which began with Reagan, and maybe even of the recent war against Iraq. In fact since 1950 his has been one of […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ at first hand. Put-down of the decade? Edward Du Cann, some time Chairman of the Conservative Party, Chairman of the Party’s 1922 Committee, and, until 1991, Chairman of Lonrho, published an autobiography in 1995, Two Lives (Image Publishing, Upton upon Severn, UK), […]

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No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] abuse because one (or possibly more) of their number were involved in a paedophile ring. The basis for the claim appears to be that Lord Kenyon, a Conservative member of the House of Lords who lived in Shropshire but had been a member of the Police Authority that covered north Wales, was a Freemason […]

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Right meets Left

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the Right are somehow less than human and undeserving of even basic human courtesies.’ This is certainly partly true. At worst, the left suspects that underneath the conservative is the fascist; at best, that a conservative philosophy is either rationalisation of self or class interest, or a delusion. But the mirror image is also […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] that other material from my collection was used in a speech by Mr Neave at the Young Conservatives in Brighton on 6 August 1976 and in a Conservative Party paper about Northern Ireland issued in September that year. Furthermore, as Mr Neave’s other letters to me show, I continued to do work for him […]

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