Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] are many opinions about the origins of Brexit. Historians will point to the importance of English exceptionalism; the gradual acceleration of the freemarket nationalism espoused by Powell, Thatcher, and their followers, including those based off-shore; the disinformation spread by much of the UK media; and the simple lack of understanding amongst the political class […]

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[…] political parties will publicly admit this (yet_ but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979, with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]

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[…] political parties will publicly admit this yet but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979 with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] down much better informed and, at the same time, seriously concerned that so much of what Miller reveals was new to him. It was during the Reagan- Thatcher years that the British so-called ‘private military companies’ first came into their own. Mercenaries had operated before then but, during that period, a permanent network of […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

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[…] of his memoir Hitch-22 (Atlantic Books, 2011) which he wrote while he was terminally ill. In this there is a section in which he describes meeting Mrs Thatcher for the first time while she was leader of the Opposition. At the end of this very odd encounter, Thatcher whacks him on his arse with […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] being that this had luckily coincided with an invitation from the Republican National Committee). See: or . 2 Peter Blaker was a ‘former diplomat’ who served in Thatcher cabinets and would later, due to ‘knowledge of defence, foreign policy and the world of intelligence’ be ‘the only Lords member of the Intelligence and Security […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] of his memoir Hitch-22 (Atlantic Books, 2011) which he wrote while he was terminally ill. In this there is a section in which he describes meeting Mrs Thatcher for the first time while she was leader of the Opposition. At the end of this very odd encounter, Thatcher whacks him on his arse with […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Mineworkers, but it was directed by a triumvirate who had declared that they were using the strike to try to bring down the elected government of Margaret Thatcher and it was actively supported by the Communist party. What was it legitimate for us to do about that? We quickly decided that the 2 How […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] MI6), William Colby (ex DCIA), Edwin Feulner of The Heritage Foundation, and General D. Stilwell (DIA). Pinay projects are said to have included the promotion of Mrs Thatcher in the UK and Strauss in West Germany. ISC records from as early as 1972 mention efforts by the Pinay Circle to generate moral and financial […]

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