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 […]

Sudan and slavery: disinformation and the Telegraph group

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] have been coming from a variety of Christian groups, including Christian Solidarity Worldwide, headed by Baroness Cox. These groups have found the columns of a number of conservative newspapers open to them; in this country notably the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Attempting to refute and rebut the claims of these groups is the European-Sudanese […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] an early release from prison, Southwark Crown Court was told. John Haase told Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle that he arranged the alleged payment through a relation of Conservative cabinet minister, Southwark Crown Court heard. Haase, 59, and his cousin Paul Bennett, 44, received a Royal Pardon in 1996 and were released 11 months into […]

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 […]

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 […]

A short history of Lobster

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[…] 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 […]

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

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] community, have not been interested in the Wallace case. But it striking that Wallace’s own supporters have generated so little noise. Ketcham concludes: ‘George Wallace’s coalition of conservative Southern voters ushered in the era of the Republican Southern Strategy, which has defined the parameters of victory for the GOP for over a quarter-century. The […]

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 […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

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 […]

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