Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Given the choice between a multi-racial, socially progressive Labour Party and nuclear interests, there wasn’t one. Now why was it that Matrix Chambers chose to represent the conservative interest in this legal conflict? To defend human rights? Can they hack it? An interesting British connection of Kissinger Associates is Hakluyt and Company Ltd, a […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Although a face-saving exercise will be agreed, it is unlikely that the Treasury will fund ‘make believe’ indefinitely. Notes 1 The Times, 16 October 2001 2 Former Conservative politician Dr Hartley Booth, now a partner with international lawyers Berwin Leighton, is Chairman of the British-Uzbek Society. This recent initiative was warmly welcomed by the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Pan Books, 1998, £7.99 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan, 1999, £25 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan 2000, £25 Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries are quite remarkable. Any normal persons would have tried … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] this century, had played a key role in establishing the system of apartheid in South Africa, and in the process helped to ensure the preservation of ultra- conservative Afrikaner cultural values and Afrikaner political dominance until 199. Yet this organization also existed. It was known as the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB), and it formed a […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] Rothschild was also close to Strachey (a former communist theoretician), and had been a scientific adviser to Strachey’s infamous Groundnuts scheme, a financial disaster used by the Conservative Party and its allies in the press to discredit both Strachey and the Labour Party. In 1963 de Courcy was found guilty of fraud and imprisoned […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] community, have not been interested in the Wallace case. But it striking that Wallace’s own supporters have generated so little noise. Ketcham concludes: ‘George Wallace’s coalition of conservative Southern voters ushered in the era of the Republican Southern Strategy, which has defined the parameters of victory for the GOP for over a quarter-century. The […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] its board of directors: among them Otto Reich, John Negroponte, Henry Cisneros and Elliot Abrams. Currently it is presided over by Vin Weber, founder of the ultra conservative Empower America association and fundraiser for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush in the year 2000. Its executive director is Carl Gershman, a former Trotskyite […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] SMH story had become “historical record” and was being quoted by other media as fact. The PDU – main target of McKnight’s article – membership consists of conservative political parties from Australia, Canada, Columbia, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, and F the U.S. New Zealand representatives at the meeting were former National Party President Sue […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] at least to those on this side of the Atlantic, are the alliances that the various Jewish lobby groups have built with a dismal array of neo- conservative organisations who regard Israel as a key and significant partner. This feature, also known as American Jewish Conservatism, extends to the Christian Zionists, the End Timers […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] advisers (not named) was a confidante of Sir James Goldsmith – another name lurking in the background during the Wilson years – and that Aitken chaired the Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with […]