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 […]

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‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] this century, had played a key role in establishing the system of apartheid in South Africa, and in the process helped to ensure the preservation of ultra- conservative Afrikaner cultural values and Afrikaner political dominance until 199. Yet this organization also existed. It was known as the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB), and it formed a […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Rothschild was also close to Strachey (a former communist theoretician), and had been a scientific adviser to Strachey’s infamous Groundnuts scheme, a financial disaster used by the Conservative Party and its allies in the press to discredit both Strachey and the Labour Party. In 1963 de Courcy was found guilty of fraud and imprisoned […]

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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

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The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] advisers (not named) was a confidante of Sir James Goldsmith – another name lurking in the background during the Wilson years – and that Aitken chaired the Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

From: M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton’s footnote at the end of his piece on Hess, in your number tries to keep alive Dr Hugh Thomas’s tale that the pilot who reached Scotland could not have been Hess, because he bore no trace of the gunshot wound the real Hess had received in Roumania in … Read more

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tittle-tattle

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 […]

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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 […]

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