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Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the first annual conference of EEF, the Engineering Employers Federation, now the clunkily self-styled ‘Manufacturers Organisation for UK Manufacturing’. 5 The text is at . subheading ‘Margaret Thatcher spoke enthusiastically about regional aid’ – in the Telegraph (24 November 2011). Green noted in his opening paragraph: ‘Despite the hype, the City (financial services and […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the power of the state. This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working of the NUM. But […]

View from

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Well, well Under subhead Theorizing conspiracy below I noted that a British academic criminologist, Theo Kindynis, is arguing that the academic criminology world has to stop being afraid of the word conspiracy […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Well, well Under subhead Theorizing conspiracy below I noted that a British academic criminologist, Theo Kindynis, is arguing that the academic criminology world has to stop being afraid of the word conspiracy […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not its documented involvement in the Thatcher era ‘think-tanks’. There’s not a word on the British American Project and other welldocumented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] to Israel to open the Rothschild-funded Supreme Court building later that year.128 Jacob was among the guests to the exclusive annual Hollinger dinner in 1998, alongside Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.129 Despite Black’s legal troubles he retained his contacts with the Rothschilds: […]

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