Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] UK needed a ‘firm’ leader? into paedophilia in high places in the past. Watson should have read the late Richard Webster’s The Secret of Bryn Estyn, the gold standard for anyone venturing into such murky waters.7 Alternatively, he could have asked any number of people for advice. Perhaps this lack of experience and common […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage of the death17 was the fact that a gold signet ring was found on one of the burned bodies recovered from the wreckage, which helped identify the prince’s remains because it bore an engraved ‘W’ […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] guarantee the country at whose invitation it came freedom from foreign interference (the US 17 Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), first president of Ghana, the first African colony (formerly Gold Coast) to achieve independence from Great Britain (1960), had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the United States. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) travelled in the […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Wolf, has published a third volume in what might be called a ‘Ring’ cycle to elaborate the language of America’s elite in its wars for the ‘Rhine gold’, a.k.a. ‘national security’. Using the methods of a therapist and chronicler, Valentine 1 The Strength of the Pack The Strength of the Pack, like its predecessor […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] approach to such destruction of evidence is to dig deeper, and to make ‘spoliation inferences’ where the facts justify them. An over-reliance on documentary exhibits as the gold standard of evidence not only tends to produce false negatives when spoliation has occurred – it can also give rise to false positives. Words on paper […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Blair Inc. Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan London: John Blake, 2015, £20.00, h/b O ne of the two reported contributions Tony Blair made to Labour’s 2015 election campaign was a speech in support of the European Union. In April the former leader said: ‘The referendum will, for the first time since we joined […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: The American deep state Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott’s essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Abdullah al-Sallal in the Yemen that was allied with the Egyptians. This operation, covertly supported by the British government, was financed by the Saudis who paid ‘with gold bullion’.8 It is worth noting here that the British had no problem whatsoever supporting Islamist rebels against a secular government! He was also involved in an […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] of the situation agrees with that of MI5 and its allies on the right at the time, with one essential difference: MI5 was aware that the ‘Moscow gold’ from the Soviet Union was mostly going to the Communist Party’s industrial department (which was running the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions). As […]