Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] comedy in the following passage: 4 Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, (London: Picador, 2006) p.236 ‘When I asked a former diplomat from the Russian embassy about the possibility that Burgess was secretly employed by British intelligence, he told me that a volubly indiscreet drunk such as Burgess, who also happened to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an opportunity to attack, Livingstone unwittingly but still […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] secret service the whole story but confesses that it was nothing more than could have been read in the newspapers. He was also quizzed by the Chinese embassy on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very text itself is suspect, containing several anachronisms (references to US embassy staff not in situ on the dates of the diary entries in question, for example) and other details that just don’t ring true at all. Perhaps […]