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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] from them. He sees the current situation as the outcome of struggle between factions of the American ruling class, between what he calls neo-liberal multilateralism and neo- conservative unilateralism. The multilateralists were exemplified by the Trilateral Commission who, in the 1970s, during Jimmy Carter’s term, had a go at creating a – here comes […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] increasingly right-wing London Evening Standard who was a recent participant in a New Atlantic Initiative (below) conference organised by Richard Perle’s American Enterprise Institute. Gove is the Conservative columnist at The Times much seen in TV studios pressing the war case. Pollard is a former Fabian Society official, a joint author with No 10 […]
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 […]
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
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] book. ‘Unusual’ because Young, who is generally regarded as a racialist and political extremist, appears as a reasonable human being. Like Young, Cavendish was accepted as a Conservative candidate in the early seventies, though their politics were to the right of the party. Cavendish, in Diana Menuhin’s account, was “so British as to belong […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
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 […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] of invisible strings; their manipulation was an altogether subtler art. The ideal for the secret service marionette-masters was, after all, to use left-wing extremists to serve their conservative cause without any direct contact or collusion’. Some elements of his case he argues persuasively — for instance the possibility that with the 1974 arrest of […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] ‘Morningside Mata Haris’, Morningside is an upper-crust area in Edinburgh famous in Scotland, any way for having a distinctive accent, posh Edinburgh. Malcolm Rifkind, erstwhile Conservative Foreign Minister, is an example of it. Elma Dangerfield and the Duchess of Atholl don’t seem to have had much to do with Morningside and were […]