Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] time and money on funding Britons Publishing with Arnold Leese. Others who followed him remained politically active. Colonel Kerr (as Lord Teviot) organised the merger of the Liberal National Party with the Conservatives in 1947. Major Edmondson was Chairman of the Carlton Club until 1956. Lt. Commander Agnew remained MP for South Worcs until […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] DELGATS OXFORD UNI. PRESS ROBERTSON, DOUGLAS GCHQ 1975 SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER LITTLE SAI WAN GCHQ ROSE, (EDWARD) MICHAEL CMG (1955) B. 18/10/13 ST. JOHNS COLL. CAMB. NATIONAL LIBERAL MI6 (C) 1937 DIPLOMATIC SERVICE 40 OSLO 44 ALGIERS 45-48 COPENHAGEN 48-52 FO 52-55 DEPUTY TO GOC BRITISH SECTOR BERLIN (BERLIN STATION) 55-60 COUNSELLOR FO 58-59 […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] and gave it a big thumbs up in the Guardian at The greatest sedition is silence William Rivers Pit London: Pluto Press, 2003, h/b, £18.99 A left- liberal polemic against the Bush regime, this hits the right targets: corporate dominance of politics, stealing the election, 9/11, the hyping of terrorism, the Patriot Act, neo-cons, […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] authored by the pseudonymous ‘James Hepburn’ and reputed to be the product of French intelligence. The Nation has a long history of slagging off conspiracy theorists: its liberal slant is that political assassinations only occur abroad, never at home – unless, as with Letelier, they are of foreigners, by foreigners. So I got the […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company London, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000 £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Terror Within: Terrorism and the Dream of a British RepublicClive Bloom Stroud, Glos.: Sutton, 2007, h/bk, 297 pages, h/b, £20.00 This sets out to provide a narrative describing the range of ‘attempts’ to set up a republic in Britain from the time of the French revolution until the present day. (Although the bulk of … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] its post-1967 conquered territory. An RFK presidency increasingly possible as the ’68 bandwagon rolled on would be bad news for greater Israel enthusiasts, with Kennedy’s liberal advisers putting on pressure for serious negotiation. And potential for leverage was certainly present in Operation Cyanide, which was, to date, the most sensitive secret in […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the succession as a hard liner, boosted by that year’s Orange victory at Drumcree, which he and Paisley had celebrated hand in hand. He defeated the ‘ liberal’ candidate, Ken Maginnis, but it seems clear that he had already decided peace on Unionist terms was possible. The problem was not to be the republicans […]
