Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic29 I am on the e-mail list of the Atlantic Council30 and received notification of a meeting of theirs, […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I offer a specific focus on Brian Crozier’s ‘Shield’ organisation, which included Eden […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] documentaries is at or . 67 25 68 believed he was a traitor and were conspiring to undermine him. In an increasingly fervid atmosphere in London, Peter Wright and a small group of counter-intelligence officers, under the influence of Angleton, now not only believed their Prime Minister was a Soviet agent but that their […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] five years and they did blog intermittently during that time52 but there has been no formal announcement saying, ‘Our conclusions are . . . .’. 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] of Commons. It only remained that the document should – in some way – be ‘officially’ approved or accepted by Parliament. O’Donnell sent it to Dr Tony Wright MP, the chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, who declined to consider it.10 It was then sent to Sir Alan Beith MP, chair […]