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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be an adequate explanation. Within days of the s tory tailing away Blair had sacked several members of his Cabinet, including Harriet Harman, one of his most devoted supporters. And as Blair’s team were battling to […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Red Scare — at whose core was the link to Moscow — has been a key feature in the political armoury of the anti-Labour alliance between the Tory Party and the state. Secondly, the end of the CP in Britain would have been bad news to MI5 in the Whitehall budget struggle. Nowadays they’ve […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Julian Amery Pre-war model Tory social imperialist who evoked enormous affection – even idolatry – in some quarters. Recent chair of the Pinay Circle. Laudatory obituaries in the House Magazine 7 October 1996, the Spectator 7 September 1996 and The Times 4 September 1996. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg (Obituary, Independent, 15 […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] we were setting ourselves an agenda that would preoccupy us for the foreseeable future, and (b) that this agenda was nothing less than recent British political his tory. This issue contains some of that post-11 research: updates, fragments, bits we left out of No.11, plus a large chunk of material which I was turned […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] matters — except Mrs Thatcher. The result is a fascinating account of how a tiny group of people, with a handful of elementary, core ideas, captured the Tory Party — and its attendant media. Much of the book is directly sourced to interviews with key individuals of the period, and even the bits attributed […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] and now a freelance writer whose work appears widely. The purpose of the 1988 gathering – as of all the BAP functions — was summed up by Tory MP David Willetts, previously director of studies at the Centre for Policy Studies founded by Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph in 1974. Willetts said: ‘The […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] a tactic emerged ‘when several of us went to the Home Office weeks before the strike began’ (Sunday Times November 25) Met. police on picket duty used Tory Party clubs as temporary police stations. (letter in Leveller Supplement No 2, December 1984) (b) and public order Met. Police ‘exceeded their powers’ in arresting people […]
