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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] ethical policy would he lead Labour into? ‘It is a fairly radical policy and it comes close to some aspects of what has become known as Neo Conservative politics in the United States — the proposal of a new kind of interventionism which has been called liberal interventionism, or in some places neo-imperialism.’ () […]
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. […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] a TUC increasingly accustomed to dealing in the political arena, wedded to a major political party which, almost alone in Europe, encompassed the majority of the non- Conservative working class. At the same time, the government’s apparatus for manipulating public opinion had grown inordinately, enabling it – on its own estimate – to confront […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] of the political side can be found in Rob Wilson’s Five Days to Power (Biteback, 2010) which provides a thorough look at the Cameron-Clegg negotiations. Although a Conservative MP, Wilson’s narrative is not noticeably partisan (perhaps because he began his career in the Social Democratic Party ) and he provides some intriguing background detail […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] by elements within the security forces of the United Kingdom seeking to destabilise the Government of the day and to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Report (see note 1) p. 66. 5 ;and James Hilder, ‘Iraq war killed 162,000 people, according to final count’, The Times, 3 January 2012. this is a conservative estimate. US military casualties, though not as grim as the Iraqi death toll, are still significant with 4,484 killed and 32,300 wounded as of December 2011, […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[PDF file]: […] a ‘dash for growth’, but an attempt to rejig British capitalism in preparation for EEC entry. This was not widely understood at the time, even in the Conservative Party. Norman Tebbitt, for example, writing in the mid-1980s, looked back on the Heath ‘U-turn’ from the free market emphasis of Selsdon Man and saw a […]