Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] they ascribed to inadequate or even treacherous political leadership. Put at its simplest, they wanted to remove figures they saw as causing the decline (such as Harold Wilson, deemed to be a secret communist, and Edward Heath, deemed to be a closet socialist and also supposedly homosexual) and replace them with a much more […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (see below). Back in the noughties I wrote a piece about the travails of the Wilson government on its election in 1964. Why did it not devalue? I called it ‘The two sterling crises of 1964 and the decision not to devalue’ […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in the form of the Cabinet Office’s rejection of an FOIA request for documents relating to the so-called ‘Iraqi Money Affair’, comprising a file created by Harold Wilson himself in 1976. The affair involved Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] no support for it within the Cabinet; nor, critically in the British system, from the prime minister (nor, had they been asked, from the electorate). Prime Minister Wilson diverted Benn’s energies into a referendum on membership of the EEC and, having seen that off, retired at 60 (as he had always told his friends […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] of State under F D Roosevelt and H S Truman, ardent segregationist and anti-communist. Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) stockbroker, banker, chair of the War Industries Board under Woodrow Wilson and a principal political-economic advisor to Roosevelt and Truman. Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) US journalist and Wilson propagandist, author of Public Opinion, argued that the masses were […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of a new feature film, Anthropoid.8 Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s Trump unveiled: exposing the bigoted billionaire is the place to start.9 Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a collection of the jaw-dropping nonsense the man has […]