Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] for the US neo-cons being legendary – is: a) supporting France and Germany’s bid to build an EU defence force outside of NATO; and b) has appointed new cardinals, who, mirroring the Anglicans, are likely to reinforce Roman Catholicism as the global friend of all faiths. Meantime, long-established non-spiritual Christian groups/charities are moving in […]

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Historical Notes: Channel 4 SOE mystery. Venona Decrypts

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] called White ‘a sentimental and highly indiscreet fellow traveller’), is that White kept up his links not because he was a Communist but because he was a New Dealer who believed in (i) union of anti-fascist forces and (ii) US-USSR friendship as the key to postwar world peace and prosperity – his real goals. […]

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‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 1992 ‘was hampered by missing prosecution papers, police notebooks, and officers declining to be interviewed…’.(1) In April 1992 a World in Action programme on the case produced new documentary evidence and witnesses which appeared to contradict the police version of events on the night. This new evidence was heard at an appeal, in February […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric Joyce MP, the former Army officer wheeled out to defend New Labour’s military interventions when ‘no minister is available’, serves on the MPs’ executive committee of LFI. Mea culpas from some…. Chairing LFI these days is Jon […]

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How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] to kill Hitler), Martin Borman convened and chaired a conference at Strassburg to supervise the mass shifting of capital overseas: ‘……so that after the defeat a strong new Reich can be built.’ The routes selected for this ran via Switzerland. (3) Estimates for the actual amounts shifted by Borman et al vary but a […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or the many clips of Moss qua dream expert on and wonder a new at the strangeness of the world. PPPiffle In a piece in The Evening Standard of 13 March Chris Blackhurst reminded Londoners that the Metronet PPP deal, […]

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Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b   Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, […]

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Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, Gurwin, Henze and Ms Sterling, Yallop fails to make the connection between Italian domestic politics and Italy’s membership of NATO. If the […]

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Our Searchlight problem

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] originally appeared as the subject matter of a long and extremely interesting article, ‘Destabilising the “decent people”‘ by Nick Anning, Duncan Campbell and Bruce Page in the New Statesman on February 15, 1980. This is still worth digging out, particularly for its detailed account of the context in which the memo was written. As […]

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