You Are Being Lied To: the Disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths

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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 […]

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Tittle-tattle

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 […]

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Web update

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 […]

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Ken Livingstone’s questions

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.

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Cold War Stories

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 […]

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MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

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.’ […]

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Gordon Brown

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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 […]

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Dangerous Men: the SAS and Popular Culture

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] in the 50s, 60s and 70s, where there was no public triumphalism, and their role in the 1980s. ‘The Britain of Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson did not need soldier heroes. This changed in the 1980s when the SAS found themselves enlisted as Thatcher’s Praetorian Guard, their exploits, both past and present, […]

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
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[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]

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