Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende’s left-wing government, the first Marxist regime both to be democratically elected and to observe the principles of liberal democracy, had many enemies in the Chilean business and land-owning communities as well as in the Church and the military. The Right and the social forces […]

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Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

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 […]

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A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

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

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Re:

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins … Read more

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US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support to Mara’s […]

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People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as an “agent of influence’. Former Liberal MP Michael Winstanley (Lord Winstanley) died in July. A long obituary in the Daily Telegraph of July 19 failed to mention Winstanley’s revelations about his knowledge […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

Say it ain’t so, Joe Joe Haines’ 2003 Glimmers of Twilight (London: Politicos, 2003) got a fair bit of attention when it appeared, most of the comments noting either former Harold Wilson press officer Haines’ allegation that Marcia Falkender claimed to have had an affair with Wilson in the 1950s, or the claim (supported by … Read more

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The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] place, Wallace’s allegations about Clockwork Orange Two go far beyond Ware’s “mainland Labour politicians”. As Ware must know, Wallace claims that MI5 wanted him to smear Labour, Liberal and Tory politicians in Clockwork Orange Two. Ware can get away with this disgraceful distortion only by completely ignoring the Wallace handwritten notes – based on […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

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

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