Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the Labour Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the rest of the […]

Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] League. The Tory MP Sir Patrick Wall is the BACC Hon. President. BACC joined the WACL in 1983. Dally is ex-RAF, and was an agent for the Conservative Party for 11 years. He worked for something called Intelligence International Ltd. from 1969 to 1984. BACC recently published a book by Dally, The Hong Kong […]

UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

For almost two generations, researchers in the UFO field have suspected that there is a cover-up by US government agencies which prevents any meaningful progress in discovering the facts behind the UFO myth. The single most important factor supporting this view has been the alleged crash of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. … Read more

The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] editors’. A deafening silence In late fall of 2003, I went into New York to have a dinner meeting with Taki and Scott McConnell of The American Conservative to discuss my proposed article on Plimpton and the PR, to be titled, ‘An American In Paris’. () The article, a lean and to the point […]

Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] powers. The clandestine rearming of Germany, in which the Soviet Union was complicit, saw ‘Mother Russia’ repaid with the slaughter that accompanied Operation Barbarossa. Indeed the ‘ conservative revolutionary’ geopolitics that made possible such alliances belies Coogan’s thesis that the today’s left is immersed in the throes of similarly deadly malaise. For those who […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] in 1992, that: ‘….by 1991 “Politically Correct” had become a buzzword to describe a phenomenon that was happening on U.S. campuses. Critics like Dinesh D’Souza, funded by conservative foundations and think tanks, helped popularize the concept.’ In the same essay Brandt noted how in 1975 at UCLA in Berkeley, ‘These feminists were all cruising […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the UK: … Read more

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] series this hasn’t mattered too much, but with a subject like this the results are pretty catastrophic. The most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories’ covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the […]

The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he merely examines Mrs Thatcher’s lies, not Conservative lies of the period. (Just think of all the lies told about Labour-controlled local government in the 1980s!) Nor does he mention Northern Ireland. Starting his […]

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is mentioned, but not the fact that MI5 officers (notably Joseph Ball, who later became a Conservative Party official) were prime suspects for leaking it to the press in order to damage the Labour Party’s chances at the 1924 election. Curry implicates British […]

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