Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

En route to their crushing general election victory in 2001 the Prime Minister and his colleagues found time for a private working breakfast with some of the big movers and shakers in UK corporate capitalism – Glaxo Smith Kline, HSBC, Unilever, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Centrica and many others – ‘to reduce the risk […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited early […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] an informal action committee, without reporting to the Council.’ (3) Parallel to the Freedom Association, with Stephen Hastings MP, Crozier formed the Shield Committee to brief Mrs Thatcher while Leader of the Opposition, on the ‘subversive menace’. He claims Mrs Thatcher ‘was listening …. because was telling her things nobody had yet mentioned to […]

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Edward Heath made me angry

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

The Christie File part 3, 1967-75 Stuart Christie p/back, £34 (inc. p and p) from Like the first, reviewed in Lobster 44, this third volume (300 pages, indexed) in Christie’s autobiography is done on A4 pages with the central text bordered with photographs of the people and incidents concerned, newspaper clippings, posters, cartoons etc. With […]

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Digression 3

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] reported to be the largest Tory Party grouping at Westminster, with over 80 MPs. The ‘New Right’ discovered by the media in the late 1970s (essentially after Thatcher came to power), is little more than an expression of the media’s complete lack of interest in the British Right prior to Mrs Thatcher. This ‘New […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

A Wapping mystery I noticed with some interest that Sunday Times editor, Andrew Neil, was described in the Guardian on May 27 as having been labour correspondent of the Economist in the 1970s. Was he, I thought, one of the correspondents recruited by MI5 in the big F branch expansion circa 1973-5? Did that explain […]

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Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about […]

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We The Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] is strongest, as one would expect, in those who have exercised power at the highest levels – among the Men in Suits. From Chamberlain through Heath and Thatcher, each deposed leader retained the support of the Party beyond Westminster. Tory supporters in their associations and clubs felt a great sense of loss and bereavement […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

Lobster Issue

[…] left, and the CIA’s covert political actions. He had some input into the Social Democratic Alliance in the mid 1970s, the forerunner of the SDP, briefed Mrs Thatcher, while she was leader of the opposition on the ‘communist menace’, and began producing IRDtype briefings on the British left British Briefing. British Briefing was published […]

The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Kevin Coogan is the author of the study of the American fascist Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day, reviewed in Lobster 39. He sent me an essay primarily about the American far-right group the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within […]

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