[…] former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric Joyce MP, the former Army officer wheeled out to defend New Labours military interventions when no minister is available, serves on the MPs executive committee of LFI. Mea culpas from some…. Chairing LFI these days is Jon […]
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
[…] in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or the many clips of Moss qua dream expert on and wonder a new at the strangeness of the world. PPPiffle In a piece in The Evening Standard of 13 March Chris Blackhurst reminded Londoners that the Metronet PPP deal, […]
[…] competition from Europe. But Heath discovered that British capitalism was not as enthusiastic about this as he was. ‘So British business had failed to respond to the new climate of enterprise which the government had striven to create after 1970. As a result, Heath now believed, the government had no choice but to take […]
Get Gough! The loans affair conspiracy Dennis Freney (Dennis Freney, PO Box A716, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia – £4.50 airmail, £3.75 seamail: international orders only) In Lobster 11 (p31) we referred to CIA operations in Australia in the middle 1970s. Since then we have received Freney’s Get Gough!, the most detailed account […]
[…] the newly formed LibDems in 1987, she stuck with the David Owen rump of Social Democrats that relied heavily on Sainsbury dosh. Both shared early loyalty to New Labour – she writing supportive columns while he signed big cheques – and then came their apparent simultaneous conversion to the charismatic qualities of the banana-waving […]
9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99 This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is […]
[…] man to pollster and ‘strategist’ to the prime minister and if we are to believe him, senior US and Israeli politicians coincided with that of New Labour. His associate for much of that time, Deborah Mattinson, now heads Opinion Leader Research (OLR), part of the Chime Communications empire of Tim (since 1990, […]
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from […]
[…] with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, Gurwin, Henze and Ms Sterling, Yallop fails to make the connection between Italian domestic politics and Italy’s membership of NATO. If the […]
