The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] of the Round Table in the mid 1960s, they moved to Allen’s view of America (and the world) run by ‘Insiders’ (Allen’s italics) – loosely, bankers, the Bilderberg group and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The book ends with a list of the members of the CFR. In Allen’s account some of them […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Conflict. That is strikingly good. ‘World’s secret government’? ‘Global elite gather in Washington for “world’s secret government”: Leaders and billionaires discuss AI, war and crypto at shadowy Bilderberg meeting’. Thus the Daily Mail website on 15 April.28 The story was right at the bottom of the site, just beneath ‘Fur-ever young! Scientists develop a […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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 […]

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[…] Conflict. That is strikingly good. ‘World’s secret government’? ‘Global elite gather in Washington for “world’s secret government”: Leaders and billionaires discuss AI, war and crypto at shadowy Bilderberg meeting’. Thus the Daily Mail website on 15 April.28 The story was right at the bottom of the site, just beneath ‘Fur-ever young! Scientists develop a […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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: […]

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[…] very clear exposition of the disastrous road taken by our economy since the late 1970s. 6 7 3 and billionaires discuss AI, war and crypto at shadowy Bilderberg meeting’. Thus the Daily Mail website on 15 April.8 The story was right at the bottom of the site, just beneath ‘Fur-ever young! Scientists develop a […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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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