Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
David Craig and Richard Brooks London: Constable, 2006, £9.99, p/b When the Blair faction took office in 1997 as ‘ New Labour’ we knew that they were going to be pro-American, pro-NATO, pro-business, anti-union and media conscious. What we did not know then was just how completely they had internalised the Thatcher ethos, […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] most noteworthy thing about it: Myrna speaks of being taken by soldiers, not aliens, after she had seen vaguely-described unusual activity taking place near Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. Davidson confirmed for me that, at the time, everyone talking to Myrna merely presumed that UFOs were involved. This is typical of the conclusion-hopping one […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] I haven’t read the offending book or heard him speak on his tour; or watched his video – is recycling a mish-mash of the American Right’s Illuminati-Trilateralism- New World Order nonsense.(1) The publicity for his ‘Robots Rebellion tour, and beyond’ speaking tour announces: ‘….humanity is being subjected to a gigantic contrick with fantastic human […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] be familiar to Lobster readers from articles by myself and John Burnes in recent editions and there is no need to recycle it here. The most interesting new development concerns de Courcy’s connection with the Swedes. This revolved around the diplomat Bjorn Prytz, who was the intermediary between Britain and Germany in the abortive […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] meeting addressed by Sir Ronald Bell (the MP whose views best reflected mine) in October 1981, a young blonde woman saying that she was in both the New National Front (later the BNP) and the British Movement. My guess would be that the BM’s members simply found John Tyndall a more credible Fuhrer than […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] side that made the other side blink. The Soviet denials were utterly unconvincing, but so were the U. S. claims that it had known nothing in ‘ real time’ of the aircraft’s disastrous deviation from its flight path and so was unable to warn it. In January of 1984, with the public finger pointing […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] remains too secret, and its decisions cannot be appealed. Malcolm Kennedy’s complaint of interference with his telecommunications is one of those proceeding before the Tribunal. In a new development that could, in theory, ultimately lead to the safety of his earlier conviction for manslaughter being reexamined, a new search for witnesses who knew Patrick […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] favourable’. But there was also a history that ‘endowed the City with a talent pool and an infrastructure that enabled it to seize the moment’ and a New Labour government that ‘through a mixture of good luck and good judgement, enabled the City to make the most of these opportunities’. Augar sees Brown’s creation […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] share of control of defence policy; and this would surely be the case even if France and Britain did not possess their own nuclear bombs and the new member states were to forget that, within the living memory of some of their inhabitants, many of them have suffered invasion and humiliation by what is […]