Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] http://www.schnews.org.uk/hotstuff/gandalf/index.htm SchNEWS update, with details of the July 1998 appeal, when the ‘gandalf 3’ had their convictions overturned. (See elsewhere in this issue.) Blackops http://gate.cruzio.com/~blackops/ Robert Anton Wilson and Miriam Joan Hill’s Encyclopaedia of Conspiracy Homepage. Conspiracies listed from A (AIDS, Anti-gravity, James Angleton) to Z (Zapatistas, Phil Zimmerman and PGP, Protocols of the […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, is worth noting for the final three in which Kenneth O. Morgan on Wilson, editor Tiratsoo on the 1970s and Paul Hirst on the Thatcher period, firmly reject the conventional neo-liberal/Thatcherite redemption drama of slow descent through the sixties into […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year Ken Livingstone’s talk was entirely about the Wilson government and the destabilisation campaign. Made Watergate look like taking candy from a child, I think was the expression. Ken for leader. American Congress for Irish […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw’s briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Renewal, new series, number 8, £3.00 ‘Jack Straw’s briefing’ is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US ‘star wars’ missile defence system. Coates’ title comes from current US military ‘doctrine’, […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] to go there!’ After a couple of minutes of this there weren’t many places where you would want to go; I think the Kennedy assassinations and the Wilson plots were still fair game, but that was more or less it. Anything which had been written about by anyone irrational or obsessive – or merely […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of the […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] Links to other National, European and International archive resources, eg Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Cold War International History Project http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm ‘CWIHP was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1991. The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] No: D 7364 C. I. A. This Certificate of Credentials is issued under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is requested that the bearer be afforded the necessary help to enable him to satisfactorily discharge his duties. 15 November 1971: Harold Wilson visits Northern Ireland. Briefing officer J. C. Wallace listens with interest.
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] is a good 1930s word which fits rather well. Britain as another US protectorate? (5) Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to […]
