At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

Book cover
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] an endorsement better than that, thanks very much. And if ‘the Establishment’ was cross with ‘West’ it didn’t stop him becoming a Conservative MP; and under Margaret Thatcher, who hated dishers of dirt and secrets. So, for me, ‘West’ has always been a puzzle: a conservative (and Conservative) historian of spookery with ambiguous relations […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Magazines/Articles

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] Red Brigades (b) organised the current Mafia/P2 episodes to discredit Andreotti. (New Statesman 25 Jan. 1985) Also in the New Statesman (11 Jan 1985) Duncan Campbell ( Thatcher goes for Nerve gas), using leaked documents, shows that this government is on the verge of ordering nerve gas for the British military. We have to […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Managing the World Economy

Book cover
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

Crosland lives! Managing the World Economy John Mills MacMillan, London, 2000, £42.50 (hb)   John Mills argues in this book that the central problem facing any economy is that of creating and sustaining growth. This is true not only for the older developed economies of the United States and Europe, including Britain, but also for … Read more

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

A short history of Lobster

Lobster Issue

[…] Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace. A few months later I wrote the first attempt to explain Wallace’s claims in Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’. This was 50 A4 pages, with an introduction by my MP, the late Kevin McNamara. He was a Catholic of Irish extraction, had knowledge of events […]

Secrecy and Power in the British State: A History of the Official Secrets Act

Book cover
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] secret state and its opponents and/or victims. Because there is so much information in this period, inevitably the most interesting and most detailed section is on the Thatcher years. There are no great revelations here, but there are some incidents I had forgotten about (and some I’d never heard of); and since I can’t […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since The Industrial Revolution

Book cover
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

W. D. Rubinstein (Second edition, revised and updated) London: Social Affairs Unit, 2006, pp., £20   Did you know that, on his death in 2001, former Beatle, George Harrison, left the second largest fortune in the UK (£98,916,000)? If you like facts like this, you will enjoy this book, and you will be in good … Read more

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Was the 1974 oil price hike engineered by the Bilderberg group

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the right into power in much of Europe, America and Australasia. It is arguable that without the oil price hike in 1974 we would not have had Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and their subsequent effects on the world. An e-mail to the Observer journalist who conducted the interview with Yamani went unanswered but I had […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The Lobster CD-Rom

Lobster Issue

[…] from Amstrad PCW format to MS Word 4.0   Example of Amstrad PCW Formated file: Notes# +/ 1. The “New Right’ and those around Keith Joseph and Thatcher worked hard to portray the Lobster issues 26 onwards were produced in Macintosh Claris Works, and required converting to PC-formated files: Macintosh 3½-inch diskettes are read […]

Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] much political headway after the riots of late 1985, or even significantly control the streets, illustrated the powerful physical and ideological reserves at the disposal of the Thatcher regime.(90) So, in a variety of ways, those anticipating a breakthrough by organised fascism were few and far between. The ‘coalition regime’ in the NF itself […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. … Read more

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Accessibility Toolbar