Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] all before it, to the detriment of serious political and historical discussion. For all his faults, one wonders what Churchill would have thought of that. Simon Matthews’ new book, Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, was published on 28 January 2021. Churchill became PM on 10 May 1940, and […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the movement of capital out of the UK, then in force – were abolished, some British capital would leave and this wealth going out would counterbalance the new wealth coming in from the North Sea. There would be no trade surplus and thus no rising pound. Freedom to move money – what the City […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] whom 3 were convicted and Duquesne (1941), which was much more extensive. The defendants in both trials did all the things spies do – stealing plans for new tanks, aircraft and ships etc. – but, other than obtaining the blueprints for the famed Norden Bombsight, it seems doubtful that they contributed anything meaningful to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] to on her say-so alone, and without any formal charges being laid. He’s only wanted for questioning – again. Isn’t this odd? Since 2014 Britain has incorporated new safeguards into the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) – for example, that it would require the authority of a judge in the requesting country, not a mere […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail’s correspondent in Germany since 1921 and who completely disagreed with the pro-Nazi stand taken throughout the 1930s by the paper’s proprietor, Lord Rothermere. Will Wainewright’s new book explores this remarkable situation and it’s a story made all the more relevant by the revival of the Far Right today. Reynolds had started out […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton ( New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts Rafalko’s claim. 1 The Latin vale in the sense of goodbye, farewell, suits him admirably: always […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] The Times. The son of Militant Tendency parents, Jones seems to be holding to and developing his progressive views despite the lure of many media appearances. His new book is is a fine achievement, covering much of UK society touched on by Henry Fairlie in his 1955 use of the phrase ‘the Establishment’ and […]