Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] feature which Mandelson’s connection with a cyber security outfit suggested: Labour peers seem to have a far greater predilection for working with cyber security firms than do Conservative peers. 1 Judging by the political affiliations of Vice Chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cyber Security,2 which MPs can join, this is […]

view from bridge

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended in Britain by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Executive (SOE) were instigated. One figure who played a part in the preparations for what would become the ‘Gladio’ networks was British military intelligence officer (and future Conservative MP) officer Airey Neave. From late May of 1942, Neave was an officer in the ‘escape and evasion’ department MI9 and engaged in ‘secret communications with […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] taken in evidence by the Metropolitan Police as the investigation unfolded. These still exist and point directly to the direct complicity of the CIA, Whitehall and the Conservative government in a murky tale of illegality and corruption at the heart of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations. Many got rich out of the inside knowledge […]

Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] is really a return to the world of nation-states; and the parts of the 21st century US counter-culture that have grouped themselves around Trump/ Trumpism are mostly conservative because the culture to which they are counter is the modern Liberalist-capitalist globalisation project. Trumpism and all its handmaidens constitute a movement that seeks to turn […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] tissue from Berlin and the blood sample given by Wolf Rüdiger to Professor Bowen. In January 1989, the British deputy foreign minister Lynda Chalker MP assured the Conservative MP Cyril Townsend: ‘Those who attach any credulity to Mr Thomas’s claims might ask 4 Hugh Thomas, Hess: A Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder & […]

Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue

[…] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

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