Armen Victorian Vision Paperbacks, London, 1999, £9.99 With the addition of a four new essays, this books contains the writing of Armen Victorian published in Lobster since his first essay appeared in Lobster 23 in 1992 (and issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34 and 36). Most welcome of […]
[…] odd in itself – and, as Cutler has shown, the news story about KAL007 we all remember was not the first published. This story appeared in The New York Times on the 1st September: “A South Korean airliner with 269 people aboard disappeared this morning near the Soviet island of Sakhalin… according to reports […]
[…] irradiated by persons unknown, for reasons unknown, at their retirement home in Kent. She is the first UK fatality of which I am aware resulting from the new generation of electro-magnetic weaponry; and it says much about this society, its government and its mass media, that her death will go unexamined. Roger Sandell died […]
[…] with howls of execration but not a word in this speech was falsified. But then Ken Livingstone had done his homework, and it shows. It is hardly new material: most of Fred Holroyd’s allegations were made nearly 4 years ago in the New Statesman and on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports. There is a major […]
[…] dismiss the impossible you have to live with the improbable. That is the reality of the Hess affair: for all his merits Padfield fails to address it. Notes Hugh Thomas, Hess: a Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988); Frank Kippax, The Butcher’s Bill (London: Harper Collins, 1991) John Costello, Ten Days […]
[…] British state. Robin Ramsay Britain’s Role in Human Nuclear Experiments: what’s been did and what’s been hid Armen Victorian Eileen Welsome’s articles in the Albuquerque Tribune in New Mexico in 1993, described a series of human experiments by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) and led up to the […]
[…] a retired civil servant. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. Previous Lobsters 9, 10, 13, are £1.25 each (UK); $3.00 (US/Canada); £2.00 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21 are £2.25 each (UK); $4.50 (US/Canada); £3.50 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 19 is £4.50 (UK); […]
[…] the early 1980s to the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. For Kamm, these reflected ‘….a curious belief reinforced by loose talk from a new President, Ronald Reagan that a new generation of intermediate missiles was being deployed in order to fight a “limited” nuclear war in Europe. The notion […]
[…] a treasure trove of bits and pieces on British politics in the post-war era, decades ahead of the crap that then constituted political analysis in this country. I checked the indexes of The Times, Spectator and New Statesman for the 1964-66 period and none of them reviewed this. Information on Mr Kisch would be welcome.
[…] Independent on Sunday, to swap notes on the stories they were planning to run in the following day’s papers’. While the general themes Davies addresses are not new, it is these personal references – the detail of the way named senior journalists have behaved – that have drawn the most stinging criticisms from fellow […]
