Gordon Brown

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] the next President of the US and a future British political leader – just the kind of people the Bilderbergers would want to have a look at. Labour leader John Smith was then on Bilderberg’s steering committee and brought Brown in. For Smith to play this role there had to be more to him […]

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A review of the (bad) reviews of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] amusing but entirely false. Au contraire, Dorril is a Freudo-anarchist, with Situationist tendencies; and Ramsay is a premature anti-Militant member of the soft old left of the Labour Party. For Ziegler we had produced ‘ the same old stew of half-facts and wild surmises…precious little added in the way of new ingredients…a dull book, […]

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The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] over in 1975, and Indonesia became America’s most reliable Asian ally. One of his leading advisers is Mike Donovan, regional representative of the ‘American Institute for Free Labour Development’, a branch of US trades union organisation which “works closely with the US government in seeking information on Bishop’s supporters in the trades unions and […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

One neglected aspect of the plotting against Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of the 1970s was the fact that it took place while the social democrat governments of Australia, New Zealand and West Germany — and possibly Canada — were also being subjected to destabilisation campaigns, with the some of the same characters […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] navy budget, later said that he ‘would have been astonished if those ships, from exercise Spring Train, had not been carrying nuclear weapons.’ (9) According to the Labour MP, Tam Dalyell, there was consternation in the Ministry of Defence when it was appreciated that a very large proportion of the Royal Navy’s entire stock […]

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The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US-European Relations (Part I)

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Hook mentions Rousset’s suggestion in Out of Step, op. cit. p. 432. The God that Failed (Hamish Hamilton/London, 1950) was a collection of six essays edited by Labour MP Richard Crossman, three by ‘the initiates’ (Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright) and three by ‘worshippers from afar’ (Andre Gide, Louis Fischer, and Stephen […]

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Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] Freedom of Information Act, and are not likely to get one from any of the British political parties. Imagine a conversation in the office of the new Labour Prime Minister in a year or three: ‘FOI? Too much trouble, too much aggro with Whitehall. As if we need any more, what with the economy, […]

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The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] us that “today, in Wallace’s mind, ‘Clockwork Orange’ has become a more sinister Mark Two which … went beyond destabilising the IRA; it was aimed at mainland Labour politicians – which just happens to dovetail with similar allegations, raised in Parliament from an entirely independent source, namely Peter Wright.” This really is extraordinary. In […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] the agreement. There is considerable opposition to the MAI, especially from environmental and development organisations, amid fears that its provisions could damage environmental quality, social welfare and labour standards, and its progress has been slowed. Currently (May 1998) the MAI has not been signed, and seems likely to be further delayed, largely due to […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

In February this year, unnoticed by the press, a funeral took place in a quiet Sussex village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, […]

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