[…] mainstream media did not mention was that Stevenson was no stranger to the Palace of Westminster. In 2000 he was appointed by Tony Blair to chair the new House of Lords Appointments Commission, a job that included vetting the propriety of nominees to the upper house and to the Honours List. While sitting in […]
[…] an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley’s fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett’s new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man’s son, a left wing journalist (New Statesman education correspondent) and historian, to understand […]
[…] of microwaves and mind control continue to produce items of significance: the subject is finally breaking through into the mainstream media. For example a piece in the New Scientist of 6 February 2000 described experiments being conducted using magnetism on the brain. It begins thus. Aim a magnet at a healthy brain, and the […]
Greg Bishop London/ New York: Paraview, 2005, $14 (US), p/b In Lobster 40 I presented a summary of this story. This book-length version adds much detail but nothing substantially different from that summary. Bennewitz was an electronics manufacturer in New Mexico, who lived a few yards from the boundary fence of the Kirtland […]
[…] to the (Hilda) Murrell murder in that it can be plainly seen there is a very close link between the IPI and government agencies who were responsible for monitoring the activities of nuclear protesters. During my (—–) year of membership in the IPI I came into contact with various officials, serving members of the […]
[…] Ward (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), pp. 141-2. And, further, David Thurlow’s Profumo: The Hate Factor (London: Robert Hale, 1992), pp. 92-3. Michael Eddowes, The Oswald File (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1977), p. 228. Osborne deserves a book to himself. When Oswald took the Continental Trailways coach to Mexico in September 1963 Osborne […]
[…] me first digress into a short history of Gemstone. Gemstone first appeared in the UK in 1976 in typewritten, photocopy form, attributed to ‘The Jesse James Press, New York and London’. A copy reached Hull (I have heard of copies as far away as the Sudan) with the instruction that the reader should copy […]
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, […]
[…] of working hours he mixed freely with many enthusiasts of the rising science fiction genre: Bradbury, Heinlein, van Vogt and Philip K Dick all met or k new him. In August 1941 he invented and claimed a patent on a small rocket that could be strapped to a conventional propeller driven aircraft to assist […]
[…] resignation, sat transfixed as Nixon and Frost sparred in a riveting verbal boxing match over the course of four evenings. Two men with everything to prove k new only one could come out a winner. Their legendary confrontation would revolutionize the art of the confessional interview, change the face of politics and capture an […]
