Stalker, Conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] Bernard McGourlay, was on a golf course when he had a conversation with Gerry Wareing, a friend of property developer, land speculator, and chairman of the Manchester Conservative Association, Kevin Taylor. Wareing had recently returned from a holiday in Spain on Taylor’s yacht, Diogenes. According to one account he mentioned the QSG and the […]

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

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] 9/92 Birmingham Aryan Resistance Movement (ARM), Newark BNP, HRP, NMI (Norway), address for the Rudolph Hess March (Germany); 10/92 International Third Position; 11/92 Third Way; 1/93 Revolutionary Conservative Caucus, BNP HQ; 3/93 BNP HQ, John Tyndall’s address, Skrewdriver Services; 4/93 Croydon BNP, Combat 18 (via USA); 5/93 ‘Last Chance’, ‘Thor-Would, American Front (USA), Front […]

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] that there had been no bloodshed,” a spokeswoman said. Unofficially the US military have been far less guarded in their gratification. The Sydney Morning Herald, a “quality” conservative paper quoted an unnamed Pentagon source as saying: “We’re kinda delighted … All of a sudden our ships couldn’t go to Fiji, and now all of […]

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] and drug dealing began to circulate. Sound familiar? Michael Allcock, a tax inspector recently jailed for corruption, has claimed that he was fitted up after investigating a Conservative ex-government minister who was alleged to have relations with Nadir. Allcock had interviewed Robertson. Allcock was also investigating Howard Marks. In 1994, I contacted Pat through […]

Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] the way the party was changing under Harold Wilson. The trio had been at the core of the 69 pro-Market Labour MPs who had voted with the Conservative Government in 1971.(7) Bradley quotes Liddle’s future business partner, Taverne, as saying of that time: ‘We feared not only that the party would turn against the […]

The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] at various times a Communist Party member, Ban-the-Bomber and Rank and File shop steward.’ It omitted to say that he had also been a member of the Conservative Party at one stage in a rather varied career. The balloon goes up On February 20, 1985, Channel 4 banned a 20/20 Vision documentary programme and […]

The Holocaust Denial

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] 1986) which is more or less an expansion of this final chapter. My opinions on the current “line” in anti-racist strategies are of no relevance here, but when I read in Heidel’s essay that “the racism of the neo- conservative New Right is cultural” it seems to me that something has gone wrong. ‘Cultural racism’?

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down ‘because they were too conservative.’ Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. He had no tolerance for the well-turned subtleties of talking heads and conventional wise men. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating […]

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