Right meets Left

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the Right are somehow less than human and undeserving of even basic human courtesies.’ This is certainly partly true. At worst, the left suspects that underneath the conservative is the fascist; at best, that a conservative philosophy is either rationalisation of self or class interest, or a delusion. But the mirror image is also […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] that other material from my collection was used in a speech by Mr Neave at the Young Conservatives in Brighton on 6 August 1976 and in a Conservative Party paper about Northern Ireland issued in September that year. Furthermore, as Mr Neave’s other letters to me show, I continued to do work for him […]

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The 1975 Referendum on Europe

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] the shape of IRD. The only bits of interest are an entertaining account by Alan Sked of his career as a eurosceptic and this snippet from former Conservative MP Richard Body: ‘Carefully selected people were invited to luncheon and dinner ……..to hear speakers give what they claimed to be confidential briefings “off the record”. […]

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Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] officer Alan Petty (26) warned of plans to create an EU army. All of which is indigestible to sections of the British state, virtually the whole the Conservative Party, a large chunk of Labour, much of the British media – and would be to the British electorate were they ever to be asked to […]

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Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more

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The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] patriotic nationalism served as the basis of fascist ideology throughout the inter-war years.’ The same concepts served as the basis of the ideology of much of the Conservative Party in this period. In 1927 it was not difficult see the ‘radical right’ as the continuation of the Tory Party; and the whole a part […]

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Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] Barclays Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Commercial Union Assurance. Another board member, Lord Poole, was a Tory MP from 1945-1950 and chairman of the Conservative Party organisation from 1955-57. The 1st Viscount Blakenham married a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Cowdray and held several positions of state, as well as being […]

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Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] there was not a single academic essay about it between its formation and 1980. Yet in its history it must have spent nearly as much as the Conservative Party. No account of British domestic political history in the 20th century can be anything but incomplete without incorporating the Economic League. Yet I have never […]

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Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] that the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right – Brian Crozier et al – had ‘captured’ a significant section of the leadership of the Conservative Party which had actually tried to use them to damage the elected government of the day. None of this is included in the Routledge biography of […]

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The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US- European Relations (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] found its intellectual advocates. Importantly this was not seen by its proponents as a shift towards conservatism. Bell stated: ‘The perspective I adopt is anti-ideological, but not conservative. repudiation of ideology, to be meaningful, must mean not only a criticism of the utopian order but of existing society as well.'(52) Not simply a CIA […]

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