[…] of the British public’s character, irrespective of where the citizen may have been born or tenets of upbringing, and an example of what could have been a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, […]
[…] from early on. It was insufficiently remarked upon in the various Callaghan obituaries. This first came to attention in November 1960 during the election to chose a new deputy leader for the Labour Party. Brown was highly thought of. A bright man with impeccable working class credentials and good trade union connections, he had […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus […]
[…] Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in the foreseeable future. To meet this challenge the army needed to develop a new preemptive strategy. The traditional role of providing support for the civil authorities, ie. putting troops on the streets when the police had lost control, was no […]
[…] scripts. All your favourites are here: MKUltra and Delta; the CIA’s drug programmes; Ewan Cameron’s ‘psychic driving’ and reprogramming experiments in Canada – all reworked with some new material. For British readers there is new information on William Sargant, author of the 1957 landmark book, Battle for the Mind. Streatfield shows that Sargant was […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America […]
[…] Royal Institute of International Affairs – Chatham House in London. He does not mention his participation in the Bilderberg Group in Toronto in 1996.(9) President of the new European Union Commission, Romano Prodi, was the subject of a long piece in the anti-EU Daily Telegraph of the 12 June this year which tells us […]
[…] work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be new to most Lobster readers, as it was to me. There is a section early on covering BOSS in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, which was […]
[…] political gossip; but at £29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, £7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, […]
[…] of Andrew Gilligan blamed by the internal BBC inquiry while all his superiors escaped censure throws a little more light on the tightness of the New Labour network. Conducting the investigation was Caroline Thomson, the BBC director of policy, who is married to Roger Liddle, Tony Blair’s adviser on defence. Thomson and […]
