The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] 6 January 1923 (for B.E.U.) A constant feature of the Tory right-wing has been its xenophobia. Since the Monday Club’s appearance the targets have been black and brown people in Britain. Before the second World War it was the Eastern Europeans in general and the Jews in particular. These were the ‘aliens’. Immediately after […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] to the dog in the back seat) but got a good look at the driver and described him as a European male aged approximately 50, with short-cut brown hair. Le Van Than is conspicuously Asian, was 22 years old at the time of the crash and had (and has) a thick mop of jet-black […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 16 March 2000. Trevor Rees-Jones with Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s story: Diana, the crash and the sole survivor, (London: Little, Brown, 2000.) One gets the impression that Moira Johnston did the bulk of the writing. An earlier book of hers, Spectral evidence: the Ramona Case – incest, […]

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] no ground was visible: the mangrove trees were standing in water into which their roots plunged. To make progress, we either had to slosh through waist-deep, dark- brown liquid, making a dangerous amount of noise, or hop from one root to the next – a laborious and exhausting process which wore the arches of […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel cause and regularly sees Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch’s neo-con point man on matters Middle Eastern and much […]

The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the author of an “Ulster Citizens’ Army” leaflet linking Loyalist militants with sectarian […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] Richard V Allen Rt Hon Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP Baroness Cox Dr Iain Elliot Professor Antonio Martino Advisory Council Dr Robert Conquest Rt Hon Lord George- Brown Brian Key Leopold Labedz Melvin J Lasky Rt Hon Reginald Prentice JP MP Professor Pedro Schwartz Frank Shakespeare Dr Philip Towle Dr G R Urban Director […]

Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] then became almost the “common sense” of the initial phase of the globalisation that followed the collapse of communism in the 1980s.’ Notes 2 Here is Gordon Brown on 26 February 1992: ‘Let no one, absolutely no one on the Conservative benches, try to peddle the misleading statement that the Labour party is not […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et […]

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