Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the Tory right that Stonehouse was a traitor, working for the Soviet bloc, was added the whisper that he was involved in some dodgy finances and Harold Wilson dropped him from the cabinet when took office in February 1974. Author Hayes is the son of a man who was one of Stonehouse’s lawyers and […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] might call the paranoid left – which was looking at the American and British secret states in the wake of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Wilson plots and changes in policing and the rise of the ‘strong state’. Yet, looking back at the last 40 years or so, it is quite clear […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Straw, former president of the National Union of Students, who at the time was working as a ‘special adviser’ to Barbara Castle, the Social Security minister. Harold Wilson, the PM, wanted to see Norman Scott’s social security file, probably in an attempt to clarify Scott’s relationship with Thorpe, and asked Castle to obtain it. […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] US foreign policy and the baleful influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., The Silent Conspiracy: Britain’s Security Services in the 1990s (London: Mandarin, 1993) Dorril, S and Ramsay, R., Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London, Harper Collins, 1992) El-Naijar, H. A., The Gulf War: Overreaction and Excessiveness: The Root of Subsequent US Invasions of The Middle […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] – see note 4 – p. 236. Ms Lindt’s remark about ‘christening him’ is a reference to the fact that Burgess’s real name was John Anthony Burgess Wilson, and his two middle names became his penname as a novelist. Edwards, archivist at Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Foundation, confirmed by e-mail: ‘We’ve not yet come […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] record, he indicated that he was happy with that and added: ‘When we hear of undercover Police having long-term relationships with animal rights activists (and even Harold Wilson being bugged by MI5 lest he was a Soviet mole) it is quite clear that the State reserves the right to monitor pressure groups or political […]
