Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] violin and trumpet led to a precocious appetite for avant-garde jazz. Like many other post-war dissidents, it was Radio Luxembourg which pointed the way to an exciting new world beyond the cosy confines of the BBC. “In the late fifties you had the BBC Light Programme or the Home Service, and then there was […]

Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: Creating Chaos Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin Larry Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and Admiral Inman is, then, entirely congruous with candidate Carter’s ongoing exploration of the Washington D.C. intelligence circuit. Furthermore, the apparent consequence of that meeting – Inman’s new job as director of the NSA – is consistent with Carter’s search for dependable intelligence figures upon whom he could rely during his time in the […]

Ian Cameron (obituary)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] RR In the eye of the beholder Book reviews, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So too the authorship that produced this indexed, expanded new edition of Gordon Carr’s The Angry Brigade: a history of Britain’s first urban guerilla group. My meaning here is simply that, inevitably, there is a degree […]

The crisis

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[PDF file]: […] descended into farce and chaos as what the Telegraph called ‘the investors’ began heckling Lenihan, making ‘monkey noises’ and shouting ‘short Ireland’.3 A paper published by the New Economics Foundation, Where did our money go?, made this interesting suggestion: ‘the scale of the current cuts in public services is 1 See p. 114 of […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Craig Whitlock New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £20, h/b John Newsinger The reporting across the British media on both the collapse of the Afghan regime and the defeat of the U.S. and its allies has been a total disgrace. Where was the discussion of […]

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