[…] insists on calling the RIS (Russian Intelligence Service) but has virtually no evidence to back up this view. There is some speculation about the allegiance of Lord Rothschild which has been floating around in certain sections of the British Right for about 45 years since the late and unlamented Kenneth de Courcy first alleged […]
[…] work to be done. Notes Kenneth de Courcy has featured in several Lobster articles on the British Right. See for example Morris Riley and Stephen Dorril, “ Rothschild, the right, the far right and the Fifth Man’, pp. 1-7 in Lobster 16, May 1988. Costello is one of only a handful who have appreciated […]
[…] and his close friend Leslie Plummer, an East-West Trader. The scientific adviser to the scheme, and at the time a financial supporter of the Tribune, was Victor Rothschild. Attempts were made to raise the issue during the 1964 election, but Wilson, who had a very tenuous link to the scheme through the timber merchant […]
[…] Anglo-American Corp. (the South African Oppenheimer monopoly), and Charter Consolidated (a big British mining finance company active in South Africa also). AMAX owns 11% of the French Rothschild mining conglomerate Imetal. which has extensive interests in Africa and elsewhere. The ownership of AMAX is complex and seems to have changed over the years. During […]
[…] been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant UK business figures’ wanted the expected return […]
Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Summary This article attempts to show that the present chairman of the National Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, is far more than the “right man for the job” imported from the U.S. by a Government set simply on technical efficiency. Macgregor’s … Read more
[…] no-one seen any of this before? It’s not that the Round Table people have been unknown. The names Quigley gives – e.g. in the inner group: Rhodes, Rothschild, William Stead, Viscount Esher, Milner, Abe Bailey, Earl Grey, H.A.L.Fisher, Jan Smuts, Leopold Amery, the Astors – are well known. The Round Table group are conventionally […]
[…] merely the (demonstrable) use of conservation in Africa as cover for political games, such as supporting apartheid South Africa? Looking at the list of familiar names – Rothschild, Milner, Astor, Huxley – in the conservation movement’s early days. Dowling suspects there is more to it than that but can’t nail it down. The question […]
Stephen Dorril London: Viking, 2006, £30 In his 1975 biography of Oswald Mosley, Robert (now Lord) Skidelsky very much celebrated the old fascist on his own terms, contributing, wittingly or not, to his attempted rehabilitation. Mosley, we were told in all seriousness, was always driven by his concern for ordinary people and a desire … Read more
[…] writes with Prospect‘s David Goodhart and attended a 2 November 2002 ‘informal group of businessmen and politicians’ initiated by Lord Weidenfeld which included Mandelson, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Micheal McLay, an early member of BAP, also in Hakluyt, who worked at LWT under John Birt and Mandelson. Sir Anthony Hammond, who conducted the […]
