Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] appears to give some credibility to claims made by Mr Wilson, following his resignation, that MI5 contained a group of right-wing officers who were incapable of distinguishing between socialism and communism, and were plotting against the government.’ […]
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 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 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) £££
[…] 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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Express would publish them on the eve of the next election. Gaitskell made his conference speech and died shortly afterwards. Beaverbrook died in 1964, the year Harold Wilson became prime minister. Twigged There was scarcely a hiccup in the largely tax-funded career of Stephen Twigg after the junior education minister lost his Enfield Southgate […]
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 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo-liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes on as a lefty, the inheritor of […]
