Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] and at the Eye he nursed an unrequited passion for Patrick Marnham.”(5) The first indication that the Eye may have been used appeared in the official his tory of the Eye written by Marnham. He wrote that “(Wilson’s) … return as Prime Minister in March 1974 was followed by a barrage of anonymous information […]

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A Very British Jihad

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] in part in the analysis in Lobster 11 and Smear!, Larkin correctly identifies the anti-communist, anti-subversion alliance formed by elements within Whitehall and a section of the Tory Party but oversimplifies it and makes many errors of detail. For example, on p.182 he writes of the ‘right wing of the British establishment (Airey Neave, […]

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Ken Livingstone’s questions

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] the figures were: 1978 -72 1987 -164 This doubling over the period of the Thatcher years is very interesting. For while the South and Midlands has voted Tory, Scotland has been moving leftwards throughout the Thatcher period – the Tories now have only slightly more than 10% of the Parliamentary seats in Scotland. And […]

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Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic his tory? Or: does he understand economic politics? In any case, I would have been asking a question to which I knew the answer. Brown knows little of […]

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Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] that respect’ (May 5th, 1993). It seems reasonable, ten years on, to add a footnote for the historians and, for others, a bit of analysis. The s tory is that Simon Haskel (later Lord Haskel), then Chair of the Labour Finance & Industry Group (LFIG), asked me to help out Geoff Mulgan. I had […]

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British History and the British Right

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] sharp pen-pictures of the politicians who have dominated the period. The author is one of the first historians to acknowledge the parapolitical dimension in modern British his tory, from the formation of the Special Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that […]

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Colin Wallace – an assessment

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] them and press reports of the speeches Neave made with Wallace’s material were shown on Channel 4 News. Despite being unable to find holes in his s tory some journalists remain suspicious of him. They accuse him of being ‘too professional’, or ‘too pat’, ‘too well rehearsed’ and so on. What they seem to […]

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Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b.   Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation of […]

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Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] has, apparently, marched on. So far there have been few reviews, and one of these (by M.R.D. Foot in The Times) snootily accuses Griffiths of revisionist his tory writing. Evidence now shows that a bigger than usually imagined section of MPs and Peers were willing to strike a deal with the Nazis in 1939/1940.(1) […]

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Price of Power

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Tories have always declined to say where the money came from, it is extraordinary that their opponents never adopted some variant of LBJ’s pig-fucker strategy. The s tory goes that LBJ was discussing how to attack an opponent in an election early in his career. The opponent was a farmer, and LBJ said, ‘Let’s […]

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