Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] of unlawful activities by members of the Security Forces in Ulster in the early 1970s initiated an RUC and Garda inquiry, is currently in correspondence with Mrs Thatcher. He has pointed out to her that the Ulster Director of Public Prosecutions’ statement that “there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against anyone” is simply […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] interesting for two reasons. One is precisely this ‘tip’ at a time when most of the British electorate had little idea who John Major was and Mrs. Thatcher showed no signs of quitting. The second is the author of this piece, David Moller. The CIA’s links to the American Reader’s Digest during the cold […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of Sinn Fein/IRA politicians, gunmen, bombers, supporters and sympathisers by the UDA, aided and abetted by British Military Intelligence, was known about by MI5, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and a few senior government ministers and civil servants (p. 160). There is no ‘smoking gun’ in the form of a document authorising British co-operation with […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] anti-democratic, and keen on ‘leadership’. (Some Straussians have problems with women leaders. Norton points out how unusual Carnes Lord is among American conservatives in not admiring Margaret Thatcher. ‘On the contrary, is castigated for being too harsh, too demanding; for humiliating men.’) Again, some of this sounds almost fascist. (Almost?) For European liberals, aware […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] Special Branch, SAS and MI5. By the 1990s the British government was seeking an accommodation with Sinn Fein and counter-terror was passing out of favour. Whereas under Thatcher, the SAS (‘her boys’) had what amounted to a license to kill PIRA volunteers, under John Major the license was revoked. After 1990 the Chief Constable […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to those tracking them over the years: ‘modernism’ must be reclaimed from the reactionary forces of the anti-technology left that was emerging from the period of the Thatcher Junta. On the streets of Britain the left was reforming. From the Battle of the Beanfield in 1983 to Twyford Down, the heroic fight against the […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] Queen and, in the City, Lord Rothschild.’ Or… The Geneva Bible? The Testimony of Albert Rhys Williams? World Conservation Bank in the light of Kontradiev and Conspiracy? Thatcher and Reagan fold before wrath of Royalty and Rhodes scholars? A-Albionic is seriously weird (in the complimentary sense) and it/they has/have an extremely exotic mail order […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] US to sign anti-terror co-operation deal’, Madrid, 20 September. 8 ‘Spain “secretly backed coup by sending warships”‘, The Times, 27 August, 2004 9 ‘US was told of Thatcher “coup plot”‘, The Sunday Times 29 August 2004, where there is reference to a proposed ‘carbon copy’ of the arrest of General Pinochet. However, this report […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] for fourth and fifth men working for Moscow, and away from those now working, in effect, for Washington. By 1979, Andrew Boyles The Climate of Treason presented Thatcher with a gift by blowing Anthony Blunts cover, and heaping further obloquy on Keynes former alma mater. When the Empire was finally wound up in the […]