[…] Milne, apparently, was told off for supporting the Labour candidate in Lincoln against Taverne. 5 Wrigglesworth remains active in the North East. He was President of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Chair of the Northern Region CBI in 1992 and currently Chairs UK Land Estates and the Newcastle-Gateshead Initiative. 6 It might be more […]
[…] — from the head of the then Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. This is referred to in Brian Freemantle’s The Fix, (Corgi, London, 1985) p. 88. Liberal baiting In May the Observer newspaper sponsored a debate on censorship at the National Film Theatre. (Part of a PR exercise which included two crappy little […]
[…] fix that sustains us in our daily desire for a better world. Since 1975, Peter Preston has been the principal gatekeeper at The Guardian, the paper of liberal conscience launched in Manchester in 1821 as the voice of reforming non-conformity. For 20 years he was editor and then became columnist and eminence grise when […]
[…] probably still has) connections with British intelligence. Intermittently funny in an unintentional way, Good Times Bad Times is a revealing portrait of the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal end of the British ruling class. RR Contact A.F.N.Clarke (Pan, London 1984) Direct, earthy account by ex-Parachute Regiment Captain of his experiences in Northern Ireland from […]
[…] gas businessmen like the Brown brothers, the FPC was keeping prices, particularly of gas, artificially low and the main culprit was Olds, who was portrayed as a liberal. ‘There is nothing more important to the welfare of the natural gas industry in Texas than that Olds be defeated’, Charles I. Francis, a Brown and […]
[…] often metropolitan, predominantly Muslim, usually highly educated civilian elites of the Middle East, who form the area’s key minority; and b) another important minority, the world-wide, often liberal, Arab diaspora including some Arab Christians and Arab Jews. Instead, it targeted a third minority clerics/tribal leaders who, for the most part, have the […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School … Read more
[…] guesses or lies. Kelly Reading The Strange Death of David Kelly needs precisely the tools of discernment we developed for After Dark all those years ago. The Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker, has written a book of real interest to Lobster readers. Baker’s work on the death of David Kelly in Oxfordshire […]
As a recent TV programme (James Bellini’s ‘The Polite Conspiracy’ 4th April 1984 BBC2) made clear, the rich have devised some artful ways of avoiding tax. Of course they also have a government committed to drastically reducing their tax ‘burden’ (e.g. Nigel Lawson’s abolition of investment income surcharge, formerly payable on high unearned incomes). Naturally, … Read more
[…] 29, 1994. On John Alexander see Lobster 25. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in 1973. On its board is Senator Pell. IONS is a liberal, New Age organisation with 40,000 members. On ‘Kit’ Green see UFO Magazine, Vol. 11 issue 3, ‘The Birds’. The USAF had been asked in February 1994 […]
