The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see … Read more

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The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ Students of parapolitics are divided as to the seriousness of the Cecil King coup plot of 1968 to establish what he called a ‘businessman’s government’, a permanent coalition government dominated by the right of the Labour Party but with unelected … Read more

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The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and … Read more

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Also Noticed

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] and gave it a big thumbs up in the Guardian at The greatest sedition is silence William Rivers Pit London: Pluto Press, 2003, h/b, £18.99 A left- liberal polemic against the Bush regime, this hits the right targets: corporate dominance of politics, stealing the election, 9/11, the hyping of terrorism, the Patriot Act, neo-cons, […]

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War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Hitler’s spy chief: – the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20   This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, provides … Read more

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Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] on to occupy important positions in the Civil Service and in academic life, nevertheless made no attempt to use their positions of influence seriously to undermine parliamentary liberal democracy.” Glees op cit p 297Knightley made himself a small fortune from the Philby articles but earned no academic kudos. As Allen Douglas noted (Kim Philby: […]

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What Price National Security?

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The […]

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Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b   On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political … Read more

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Clippings: The Lie Detector Story

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

Clippings The Lie Detector Story In the wake of the Prime case, US intelligence has made polygraph (lie detector) introduction into GCHQ at Cheltenham a condition of future GCHQ-NSA cooperation. “At a meeting in July with Civil Service union leaders, Sir Robert Armstrong, the Cabinet Secretary, made it clear that Senior Whitehall officials were reluctant … Read more

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The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] Mosleyism and British politics. In the light of ‘anti-alienism’, Mosley was not just a flash-in-the pan, an aberration that serves to affirm the essential stability of the liberal state and its political system. The state was, itself, already deeply incriminated in anti-Jewish discrimination and political parties had already experimented with a national chauvinism defined […]

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