The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] to Stephen Marshall’s important but flawed book, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, she’s just another ‘fallen liberal’ who either provides ineffective and impotent criticism of the present neo- conservative order or actually feeds it. It’s because of the essential truth in much of what Marshall says about former Left renegades in his book, that I […]

Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] MI6.’ Not mentioned by Crozier: G.K. Young, Airey Neave ….. In the 1970s and 80s Crozier claims to have run, inter alia: Peter Shipley (last seen at Conservative Party Central Office); Douglas Eden of the Social Democratic Alliance; Dr Julian Lewis (last seen at Conservative Party Central Office); Tony Kerpel (last seen listed as […]

Spooks and the EEC

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

The CIA In a recent ‘Witness Seminar’ on the 1975 British referendum on entry into the European Economic Community (EEC), the Conservative MP, Sir Richard Body, who in 1975 was co-chair of the anti-EEC National Referendum Campaign, had this to say: ‘At the very beginning of the campaign two CIA agents came to see […]

Fifth Column: A brief sojourn East of Suez: a last gasp for British great power status

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The debate about whether the British should have a military presence East of Suez seemed to have been settled under the Wilson-Callaghan Government in the 1960s and 1970s. The process of withdrawal started with the independence of India and Pakistan (widely celebrated in the UK media recently on its sixtieth anniversary), was confirmed by the […]

Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] the great Liberal newspaper. Casement’s appeal was heard – and dismissed – by the same judge who dealt with the Pemberton-Billing/Allen trial, Mr Justice Darling, an ex- Conservative MP. Other parallels? Both Wilde and Casement were Irish, both were gay, both were Protestants. How the English establishment takes its revenge! (And how little good […]

Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] Ann Arbor: Pluto Press; 2007, £14.99 (UK) $24.95 (US), p/b   Laughland is an interesting figure, whose writing appears in media across the ideological spectrum, from the conservative right to The Guardian and here, Pluto Press. It is thus a little hard to identify his politics. Three years ago David Aaronovitch wrote about him. […]

Jim Callaghan: the life and times of Solomon Binding

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Healey become leader many commentators believe the SDP would never have been launched and the result of the 1983 election would have been different (a much lower Conservative majority). By staying on and adopting an easy-going and lacklustre stance, Callaghan gave credibility to the many demands for a radical change of direction. When he […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Electrical Trades Union. I have talked to individuals of varying ranks in the Armed Services….and to some senior members of the late Conservative Government. From these discussions I have concluded that there is no effective contingency plan at the present time.’ (4) So it seems that Walker, Young and […]

In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] the Labour Party and socialism. Hulton, who later joined the Common Cause Advisory Board, had earlier told his editor, ‘Kindly remember that I am not only a Conservative, I am loyal supporter of Mr Neville Chamberlain.’ (25) Hulton, like many right-wing Tories, may have supported corporatist aims in war-time, but never socialism. He was […]

Good-bye Tony

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] as he ends his period in office mired by the honours scandal. The reason that the Economist gave for backing his re-election, that he was the best conservative on offer was totally true; but even die-hard conservatives must have been shocked at his totally supine attitude to the Bush administration. He provided legitimacy to […]

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