Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] journals abroad, including Britain’s moderate-left Encounter – the list goes on. The CIA has been widely suspected of further plots, against Australia’s Gough Whitlam and Britain’s Harold Wilson, for example; which couldn’t easily be dismissed as paranoid when all these other things were going on, and look even more plausible today. In the Wilson […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] government.4 There is no sign this will be introduced. Finally, the UK lacks a written constitution – again, a unique feature – and no precise role 3 Wilson took 48% of the vote in 1966. A case can be made that Wilson and Heath were the last two successful consensus politicians in the UK, […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century Alwyn Turner London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Great Britain (CPGB).12 Did the CPGB have such a role? Academic research and comments by participants suggest that a major part in the frustration of the Castle- Wilson proposals was indeed played by the The Liaison Committee for I discussed how Heath was conned by the bankers into introducing the Competition and Credit Control […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Romeo Spy John Alexander Symonds This is a free download at . O n what basis can one review a book? I wonder, because I haven’t read this properly: I’ve skimmed it and noted some sections. Much of it is territory I am not competent in and I have little idea how one would try […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] would act if, or when, peace terms were tabled was never clear. Beyond Parliament there were others whose attitude toward Churchill was less than whole-hearted. Sir Horace Wilson, the Head of the Home Civil Service, was known for his strongly anti-semitic views and had been a staunch supporter of Chamberlain’s policies pre-1939 remarking, ‘The […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Here is some more detail. The back story Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 and 1979 tried to create an alliance of domestic interests – unions, state and employers – to manage the domestic […]