The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] foreign policy executive arm of the British monarchy.’(11) Ha! (And no evidence offered.) p. 29 ‘Lady Thatcher had been dumped as head of state by her own Conservative Party on Bilderberg orders and replaced with trapeze artist (sic) John Major.’ Not only is there no evidence that Thatcher was dumped on the orders of […]

Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] voce approval of two merger agreements. The deal was a difficult one: PowerGen wanted to take over of East Midlands, a vertical combination already rejected by the Conservative Government. In return, according to their lobbyist, PowerGen offered to commit to coal contracts to save coal-mining jobs. On June 25, 1998 when DTI Minister Margaret […]

Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Wayne Cocroft and Roger Thomas, edited by P.S.Barnwell English Heritage, 2003, h/b, £24.99   A very high-quality, well presented book that is considerably more appealing to look at than most of the unlovely structures which are illustrated between its large, hardback covers. It is partly because of the non-photogenic subject matter that the book is … Read more

Hess – the Fuhrer’s Disciple

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] covert links between the Nazi leadership and reactionary elements in the British state, located mainly in the City, the landowning aristocracy and the imperialist wing of the Conservative Party. (The activities of those representing a significant part of large-scale industry are not really discussed.) In an interesting ‘Afterword’ Padfield suggests that the Hess flight […]

Market Killing: What the free market does and what social scientists can do about it

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] primacy. Taking the post-modern route away from the analysis of the real spared the sensitive cultural analyst from those career-threatening conflicts with the line coming from the Conservative governments of the day. If the left was out, post-moderism provided an alternative to embracing the new right, a sideways step. After the authors’ long introductory […]

Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] split into several organisations. The French Grand Orient is politically liberal, and has sharply attacked the Nouvelle Ecole school in its journal Humanisme (March 1981). The more conservative, pro-British Grande Loge Nationale Francais is based in Neilly-sur-Seine, and enjoys the support of fellow mason General Lyman Lemnitzer, who inaugurated its new temple in 1964 […]

The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] minister Ole Bjorn Kraft (publisher of Denmark’s top daily newspaper); and from England came Denis Healey and Hugh Gaitskell from the Labour Party, Robert Boothby from the Conservative Party, Sir Oliver Franks from the British state, and Sir Colin Gubbins, who had headed the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. On the American […]

The Northern Front

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] July 2007, Charles Glass wrote in The Nation about what he knew well in those heady days during which he composed his diary: ‘Washington’s ideologically charged neo- conservative coterie possessed little or no understanding of the Middle East, allowing it to dismiss the easily predictable consequences of invading and occupying Iraq.’ A defensible charge, […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] twice. But she believes stuff like this, that was her appeal to the right-wing Tory/spook network in the mid 70’s who ran her for leader of the Conservative Party. This ‘Labour left coup’ theme was recycled in the Sunday Express (October 8 ’89), reporting a speech on these lines by another survivor of the […]

Stalin’s granny, Christopher Andrew and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] no Soviet grand plan for the invasion of Britain and world domination; and nothing in Mitrokhin’s packet of revelations proves that there was. Even if the ultra- conservative Soviet bureaucracy had wanted to conquer the world, the creaking and sclerotic Soviet system was hardly up to it. The Cold War was never as simple […]

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