Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] know that the Texas Congressman’s success in obtaining enormous finance and sophisticated weaponry for the Mujahdineen was strongly promoted by the Israeli lobby in Washington to which Wilson was very close.41 Mujahdineen training by the US, UK and Israel as part of well-funded Operation Cyclone is a matter of record. One assumes that Blunkett, […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] under the control of Russian agents did not have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the story as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid by Moscow to advance communism in Britain’. […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

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[PDF file]: […] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] De Gaulle’s veto of the UK’s bid – ‘by 1970’. On file are notes of Lemass’s talks with Duncan Sandys (mainly about Cyprus and peace-keeping operations), Harold Wilson (highly generalised with Wilson not making specific commitments, or positive suggestions) and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (on trade and Europe, with Douglas-Home not saying very […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] EEC. This was held on June 5 1975. 2 position, negotiated some changes to Britain’s terms of membership and recommended the public endorse these in the referendum. Wilson was successful and Britain voted by 2:1 to stay in the EEC. The 1975 referendum did not succeed in putting the question of Britain’s place in […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] chair of York University Conservative Society – hosted a regular 30 minute ‘current affairs’ programme on Radio 270 throughout May-August 1967. In the final weeks before the Wilson government made offshore broadcasting illegal, Radio 270 carried contributions from Ronald Bell MP and John Biggs-Davison MP in favour of the introduction of commercial radio in […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] was an interesting piece in one of the Daily Telegraph blogs, Ed West’s ‘My local Tory party has just died. What the hell is going on?’ Bill Wilson MSP For much of the developing world the basic message is this: challenge America and it bombs and shells you with depleted uranium (DU), irradiating you, […]

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[…] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Frankfurt, to establish banking houses in London, Paris, Naples and Vienna, the House of Rothschild managed to be both very powerful yet almost supernaturally discreet. As Derek Wilson observes in his study, Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power (1988): ‘Seldom were to be seen engaging in open public debate on important issues. Never […]

Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would he provide the House with a brief characterisation of the political philosophy which he espouses and which underlies his policies?’ Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, A.N. Wilson described what followed: ‘Mr Blair was, for the moment, uncharacteristically, silenced. Then, he began to waffle in his customary fashion. He spoke of NHS investment plans […]

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