From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] you can take them apart. SOMERSETT: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have to know where we are at. Because you know that will be a real shake if they do that. MILTEER: They wouldn’t leave any stone unturned there, no way. They will pick somebody up within hours afterwards, if anything like […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] forces from Vietnam.33 The end of the world as we know it John Lanchester was given access to the Guardian’s collection of the Snowden NSA/GCHQ documents in New York and has produced a really excellent account of them and the dangers they imply.3 4 Lanchester made one very striking omission. He wrote this: ‘We […]

Using the UK FOIA

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] particularly interesting read because I am currently embroiled in a lengthy appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK. As a part of the research for my own previous Lobster article ‘The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the “Gladio” networks’,1 I had succeeded in obtaining some documents from the Foreign and […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to the original hard copy versions as is practicable. It remains just words (no pictures); the subject matter hasn’t changed. What has changed are (a) typeface: Times New Roman does not suit the screen; (b) there is only one column of text instead of two or three (with an infinite amount of space there […]

A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] civil war in which they could play no part; while the much more powerful Americans blundered about. It was this which got the US ambassador killed. Hancock notes that he ‘died as the result of mistakes made on the ground and Washington’s poor assessment of the degree of risk to which they were exposed’. […]

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[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]

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