Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s London File on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Calendared & Glossed by Anthony Frewin ‘Calendared and Glossed’ is pretty elegant, is it not? And totally accurate, of course. In his ‘Author’s Note’ Frewin tells us that this began as an idea for a Lobster piece but, like Topsy, … Read more

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SAS

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

Close Quarter Battle (CQB) training is undertaken by an unusual group calling itself the CTT or Combat Training Team. The CTT group has two centres near London where it trains people in the art of silent killing and similar accomplishments. It poses as a commercial organisation, but its two centres at Fort Pilgrim and at … Read more

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‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the 2005 result ought to have signalled problems: Labour had won a majority with a seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and Respect had grown; and for the second successive election […]

Historical Notes: Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after World War One to develop a whole new social philosophy and agenda for economic policy on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] ‘deep political history’ of the US is actually a struggle within the ‘oligarchy’ that rules America; between its ‘two ruling factions’ – identified respectively as the ‘ liberal’ right and ‘conservative’ right (p. 6) – for ‘dominance in the world’s most powerful country’. (p. 1) The competition between these two factions, claims Raso, has […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] political economy has to a greater or lesser degree been replaced by one based on neo-liberalism, or ‘economic liberalism’ (the ability to continue describing the system as ‘liberal’ is important, as I shall argue later). In my view it is in this metamorphosis that we can see the origins of the current crisis. Why […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] conceptual overlap, and it’s unclear how closely the two are linked. This doesn’t greatly trouble Dugin who is ideologically opposed to big-L Liberalism and is not particularly liberal with a small L either. 3 2 good, anyone in the West who now dissents from big-L Liberalism seems to automatically self-incriminate as preferring a social […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] Association. Stewart-Smith’s contributions to the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] its own estimate – to confront the spectre of Bolshevism and survive. Lloyd George himself, searching always for a middle way in politics, had shifted away from Liberal radicalism towards a corporatism best described as the creation in Parliamentary politics of a staatspartei, composed of Liberals and mainstream Conservatives (leaving a fringe right wing […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] nations to be peacefully resolved via co-operation between the great powers in the UN Security Council – a contemporary version of the nineteenth century ‘Concert of Europe’. Liberal Internationalism Set against this was the West’s vision of the international scene after the conclusion of the first Cold War. The philosophy and discourse underpinning it […]

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