View from Bridge copy

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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

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 & […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] getting better and that the United Kingdom was about to become the most innovative country in the world, or, as Rishi Sunak put it at the 2021 Conservative Conference: “the most exciting place on the planet”. A government comprised of ministers apparently impervious to basic social and scientific facts had found that their only […]

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

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[…] 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. 7 5

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet […]

Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Hayward’s brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst ( Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In […]

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 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] been involved with the National Union of Students in the early 1980s. He 33 recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many […]

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