Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] Mairet and his colleague on the New English Weekly, Maurice Reckitt, were Guild Socialists, while Aubrey Westlake, a London doctor with a Hampshire estate, was active in Labour politics in Bermondsey, later converting to Social Credit. A number of figures later prominent in the organic movement were involved in Dimitrije Mitrinovic’s cosmic-socialist New Britain […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious Edward Short Swiss bank account, have been published as a pamphlet, The Anti- Labour Forgeries, by Labour CRISIS – PO Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] late, but this issue is late. The explanation is that the Ramsay half of this operation was persuaded to spend April as an election agent for the Labour party. (And lost!). If the Labour Party and the Lobster seems an odd combination, it is worth pointing out that several of the people at the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by critical […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] by a desire to expose corruption, crimes or wrongdoing. In Spycatcher, Peter Wright famously exposed the cabal of MI5 officers who had plotted to destabilise Harold Wilson’s Labour Government. He was motivated by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a complete […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] ink’ person in the world and turned out to have been written in or around 1974. His claims to have been working with Airey Neave on anti- Labour speeches have been substantiated: the letters between them and press reports of the speeches Neave made with Wallace’s material were shown on Channel 4 News. Despite […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] August 1987 the Kilburn Times reported a vitriolic attack by Western Goals (UK) on Ken Livingstone MP (whose constituency includes Kilburn): ‘Livingstone and his friends in London’s Labour councils want to encourage more homosexuals to come out of the closet and spread their perverted filth. The gay rights policy which he is preparing to […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] place where all sides could meet on neutral ground. When he refers to a ‘challenge to democracy’, it is economic failure to which he refers, not organised labour. An eminently fair-minded man he may be, but has he produced an interesting book? Yes he has, both in the story that he is aware that […]
