Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] heard of. The case received little publicity, getting buried under 9-11. See the collection of articles at There is also a sense that in not taking serious security precautions while running for the Democratic nomination in 1968, Robert was inviting his own death. Talbot has/had an interesting blog documenting the reaction of the American […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan. […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Tom Bower London: HarperCollins, 2004, £20, h/b I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is … Read more
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] MMU appear to be Julian Lewis and the ubiquitous Lord Chalfont (The Independent November 11 1986). Lewis, one of the founders of the Coalition for Peace Through Security, is a member of something called Policy Research Associates, with Chalfont and Norris McWhirter said to be its patrons. (Daily Telegraph 19 November 1986). MMU seems […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Gary Webb Seven Stories Press, USA, $24.95 This appeared in San Francisco Chronicle on June 28, 1998. The Chronicle edited out a section… This has been restored and is in italics. What the Chronicle found too sensitive to publish is rather interesting – editor. Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Welfare fraud figures ‘Labour ministers have persistently exaggerated welfare fraud by a minority of claimants in an attempt to distract attention from difficult questions about improving economic security for the majority’, so began ‘Benefit fraud “is exaggerated”‘ in The Guardian 28 August 2002. Labour Party Website In ‘Professors accuse Labour of creating a “social […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
Most, if not all police forces already have, or are in the process of acquiring, information handling computers of some kind. The background to the present situation is best described in the pamphlet The Police Use Of Computers, parts of which were reproduced in State Research No 29, and were used by the National Computer … Read more
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
