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 […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] twice. But she believes stuff like this, that was her appeal to the right-wing Tory/spook network in the mid 70’s who ran her for leader of the Conservative Party. This ‘Labour left coup’ theme was recycled in the Sunday Express (October 8 ’89), reporting a speech on these lines by another survivor of the […]

Hess – the Fuhrer’s Disciple

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] covert links between the Nazi leadership and reactionary elements in the British state, located mainly in the City, the landowning aristocracy and the imperialist wing of the Conservative Party. (The activities of those representing a significant part of large-scale industry are not really discussed.) In an interesting ‘Afterword’ Padfield suggests that the Hess flight […]

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 […]

Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] split into several organisations. The French Grand Orient is politically liberal, and has sharply attacked the Nouvelle Ecole school in its journal Humanisme (March 1981). The more conservative, pro-British Grande Loge Nationale Francais is based in Neilly-sur-Seine, and enjoys the support of fellow mason General Lyman Lemnitzer, who inaugurated its new temple in 1964 […]

The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] minister Ole Bjorn Kraft (publisher of Denmark’s top daily newspaper); and from England came Denis Healey and Hugh Gaitskell from the Labour Party, Robert Boothby from the Conservative Party, Sir Oliver Franks from the British state, and Sir Colin Gubbins, who had headed the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. On the American […]

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

Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the nature of the periodical, believing it merely to be some local Conservative newsletter. I know Leigh and when I first read this story in Searchlight I was amazed. There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, […]

A short history of Lobster

Lobster Issue

[…] Steve, and, in publishing it, we breached the Official Secrets Act in a big way. But apart from being denounced in the House of Commons by a Conservative MP – who was among those listed – nothing happened. Evidently the British state had learned the lesson that prosecution merely makes those prosecuted the subject […]

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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