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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]

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[…] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] record straight.4 One initial point to make about Stirling is that – inevitably – he was a toff. His father was Brigadier General Archibald Stirling, a former Conservative MP and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire, and his mother was Margaret Fraser, the daughter of the 13th Baron Lovat. He had attended Ampleforth public school and, […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] was to cut consumption by cutting wages and it wanted a statutory incomes policy. For a Labour government, largely funded by the trade unions, 1 See . Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in a ‘dash for growth’ and so greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies were suffering after […]

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[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]

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[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]

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[…] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?34 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a Union Jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with important information on Dr Kelly, including police officers and many of their interviewees, were not called as witnesses by Lord Hutton? Did you know that the Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat he retained in the 1959 general election. He stood again in 1964 as a ‘Conservative and Independent’ but lost. In 1936 Dr Johnson and his first wife, Christiane (subsequently killed in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted […]

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