In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and […]
[…] the Bolshevik menace. (20) The SOJ rests upon an ecclesiastical alliance of Roman Catholics, traditionalist Old Roman Catholics, and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, […]
Dodgy dossiers Steven Kettell, author of Dirty politics? New Labour, British democracy and the invasion of Iraq (London: Zed Books, 2006), argues that New Labour wanted regime change in Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy […]
[…] doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. (1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already k new: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they are. Had the American government […]
[…] the newly formed LibDems in 1987, she stuck with the David Owen rump of Social Democrats that relied heavily on Sainsbury dosh. Both shared early loyalty to New Labour – she writing supportive columns while he signed big cheques – and then came their apparent simultaneous conversion to the charismatic qualities of the banana-waving […]
9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99 This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is […]
[…] of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from the mid-1970s the spook-wise British left — the line […]
[…] man to pollster and ‘strategist’ to the prime minister and if we are to believe him, senior US and Israeli politicians coincided with that of New Labour. His associate for much of that time, Deborah Mattinson, now heads Opinion Leader Research (OLR), part of the Chime Communications empire of Tim (since 1990, […]
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
[…] competition from Europe. But Heath discovered that British capitalism was not as enthusiastic about this as he was. ‘So British business had failed to respond to the new climate of enterprise which the government had striven to create after 1970. As a result, Heath now believed, the government had no choice but to take […]
