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 […]

Fiji coup update

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 […]

The Iron Triangle: inside the secret world of the Carlyle Group

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 2001 in the presence of Saudi investors like Shafiq Bin Laden, estranged brother of Osama. In the wake of such events and in line with wider neo- Conservative foreign policy objectives, the Carlyle Group has sought to divest itself of its dependency on the querulous House of Saud in favour of the new ‘opportunities’ […]

Digging in the Oyston archive

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Tons of documents and tape recordings recovered from an old manor house in Lancashire reveal the true depths of corruption in English provincial life at the end of the twentieth century. Owen Oyston was the British Labour Party’s biggest private financial contributor in the Thatcher years. The millionaire owner of radio stations and glossy magazines … Read more

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] leadership of the past year, and a group of people who, for varying reasons, wanted to ignore corruption and rumour-mongering…. and to hamstring the NF with out-dated conservative policies.’ (p. 2) At this stage the ‘political soldiers’ held the upper hand, both politically and legally. Their key opponents had been outmaneouvred and many were […]

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, […]

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

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] must be made by specially suitable undercover activists to penetrate into that bastion of British capitalism and so set up the strongest possible Communist cells within the Conservative Party ….’. This document, I suspect, is a product of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). This impression is greatly strengthened by Braddock’s report of […]

Oswald Mosley – Fascist and Sex Machine

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement 1923-1945 Julie Gottlieb, London: I.B. Tauris, 2000, £39.50 The Viceroy’s Daughters Anne de Courcy London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £20.00 Blackshirts on-Sea J. S. Booker London: Brockinday Publications, 1999, £18.00     Fascism is generally regarded as a fiercely masculine political movement committed to excluding women from the worlds … Read more

Spies at Work

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit … Read more

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