The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within it there is a short his tory of British League of Empire Loyalists, a rather important group on the British post-war right, about which there is almost no current published material. Here, extracted […]

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Spies at Work

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] a digest of research into the British right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunc tory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes who wandered […]

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Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] a campaign for re-armament. Speakers included the former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on […]

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The Oyston Affair continues: D909 and the friends of Margaret Thatcher

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]

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Confessions of a Crawler

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Thatcher and what she could do for him. On 11 June 1987, both Wyatt and Murdoch were at a party at Cliveden to celebrate Thatcher’s election vic tory. ‘When Ken Livingstone appeared on TV to blame Labour’s defeat on “the dreadful lies and smears of the media”, Rupert cried out, “That’s me!” and was […]

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The economic background to appeasement and the search for Anglo-German detente before and during World War 2

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] This dominant alliance was so well entrenched that it was able to survive the financial crisis of 1931 by making only tactical adjustments to the liberal trajec tory of policy. Departing from the gold standard and adopted a floating exchange rate permitted the pursuit of a ‘cheap money’ policy based on a low bank […]

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Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] long – far too long for publication – letter from me to the Spectator on 27 March 1990. Here are two sections from that. Here the s tory is much more complicated than Ware would have us believe. I was working on the Wallace story, as a researcher to Channel 4 News’ Robert Parker, […]

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Good-bye Tony

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] outgrowth of Thatcher’s; a Stalinism complete with Orwell’s endless war, obsessed with the enemy within – the idea of enfranchising the working class. Blair’s McKinsey-trained hordes accelerated Tory transformation of public service to private profit. New Labour abrogated the responsibilities of democratic government, leaving even the waging of war to private enterprises who profit […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] first part this is worth getting. £4.20, cheque payable to ‘Greenwich Branch Nalgo’ to: Basement, Borough Treasurers Department, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London SE 18 Social Science His tory Vol 7 Spring 1983 (Sage Publishing, London) The entire issue is devoted to essays on The American Corporate Network, edited by the distinguished American ‘elite sociologist’ […]

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American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] Sir Keith Joseph when in opposition. The CPS’s most important link is to the Campaign For Defence and Multilateral Disarmament (CDMD) which is run and funded by Tory Central Office, and helps distribute CPS literature. Harvey Thomas, Tory Central Office official on the CDMD committee said “We keep in touch with the Coalition. There […]

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