[…] 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 […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — … Read more
It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor’ (1) which advertises … Read more
[…] in the anti-Wilson – or, at least, anti-Heath – plots. One has to ask why Oldfield, a man who is generally regarded as being something of a liberal, was close friends with these two. Is everything we know about Oldfield wrong? Was the man a closet reactionary, or a man admired as a true […]
[…] resigned from CIA, avoiding Angleton’s mole hunt, and went back to Vietnam. At this point political considerations at the highest level came into play. Colby, a self-described liberal, had a fortuitous personal connection with Richard Nixon. (Colby’s son was the roommate of Tricia Nixon’s fiancé, Edward Cox, who in 1970 was Jonathan Colby’s best […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine … Read more
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less […]
[…] disclosure of information. ‘In Scotland the Crown is allowed to modify or withhold evidence if it considers that withholding is in the “public interest”.’(21) Baker on Kelly Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker’s book The Strange Death of David Kelly (London: Politico’s Publishing) received extensive press coverage prior to its publication in November. According to […]
Close Quarter Battle (CQB) training is undertaken by an unusual group calling itself the CTT or Combat Training Team. The CTT group has two centres near London where it trains people in the art of silent killing and similar accomplishments. It poses as a commercial organisation, but its two centres at Fort Pilgrim and at … Read more
The articles on Blairism and contamination in Lobster 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion … Read more
