The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.’ 1 or 2 
 2 It’s a famous quotation, recycled endlessly on-line, something he reportedly said at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting.3 But did he actually say it? At 4 there is what purports to be the audiotape of Rockefeller saying this in 1991. Yet on the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] and a lefty, though of what particular stripe I’m not sure (tendence Groucho, perhaps.) We only met a handful of times.8 He wrote the seminal article about Bilderberg for Lobster 32. Nothing 5 6 7 8 A photo and brief biog, from the perspective of a group in Leeds to which he belonged, is […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] this journal in 1983 I tried to assess his claims.2 To my knowledge there is still no academic work on this subject, possibly because – as with Bilderberg – the interest of the conspiracy theorists in America has contaminated the material. Nonetheless the (non-academic) interest in Quigley remains and there is a collection of […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] university trade union courses at Harvard and Columbia’. (Carew p. 191) GMWU General Secretary, Tom Williamson, was one of the participants at the first meeting of the Bilderberg Group in 1954. (Eringer p. 49) Other British participants included Hugh Gaitskell and Dennis Healey, who discusses the Bilderberg meetings in his memoir, The Time of […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] trouble from a Labour government. In some of these dining rooms John Smith was already known: at this point he was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, some of whose regular attenders are bankers. But this ass-kissing was to no avail: Labour lost again in 1992. Neil Kinnock resigned and John Smith […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] this journal in 1983 I tried to assess his claims.1 To my knowledge there is still no academic work on this subject, possibly because – as with Bilderberg – the interest of the conspiracy theorists in America has contaminated the material. Nonetheless the (non-academic) interest in Quigley remains and at there is a collection […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] developed, very early on, extremely close US political connections, spent every summer in the US for many years, and by 1991 had been talent spotted by the Bilderberg Group. 39 Winter 2010 During the same period the only other figures to score regular top four positions (to use a football metaphor) were John Smith […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] group/individual is really running things behind the facade of democracy. Over time the identity of the master manipulator changes: the Illuminati, the Jews, the communists, the Masons, Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, George Soros. With the current crop of Covid theories we have been offered new identities for the players behind the curtain: […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Gibraltar on an earlier visit to the Rock, guided by the Scottish general Noel Mason-Macfarlane . Behind Sikorski are the ‘ever-mysterious’ Józef Retinger, post-war co-founder of Bilderberg, and the British liaison officer Colonel Victor Cazalet MP who died with Sikorski in the 1943 crash. In 1967, the literary manager of the National Theatre […]

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