Lobster Issue 41: Contents

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Robin Whittaker (in particular), Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock, anon in Dubai, Chris Tame, Robert Henderson, Peter Watson and David Turner for information. Thanks to Chris Gordon- Wilson for a donation of £50. This is a belting good issue, in my view, with a wide variety of top-drawer material – but I tend to […]

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Miscellaneous: Manning Clark. L. Ron Hubbard Jnr.

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order […]

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My enemy’s enemy…: Museum Street

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New […]

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Who’s kidding whom? The September issue of Fortean Times carried a five page article by Robert Irving, ‘The Henry X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly […]

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The economic background to appeasement and the search for Anglo-German detente before and during World War 2

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] 6 Apr 1939. P.R.O. ECG1/19, October 1939. Documents on German Foreign Policy (hereafter DGFP), Series D vol. VI, pp. 977-83, Wohltat’s minute of conversations with Sir Horace Wilson, Sir Joseph Ball and Robert Hudson, 24 Jul 1939; Documents and Material Relating to the Outbreak of the Second World War, vol.2, pp. 67-72, Dirksen’s report […]

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A guided democracy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. ‘Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid rebuttal […]

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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] been involved in the assassination. This is quite odd. Pepper doesn’t state that it was the white Mustang driven by Ray. The real thing or a copy, Wilson and a colleague went to the abandoned car and, says Wilson, as he opened the car door an envelope fell out onto the ground. Wilson, one […]

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Fifth Column: A brief sojourn East of Suez: a last gasp for British great power status

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The debate about whether the British should have a military presence East of Suez seemed to have been settled under the Wilson-Callaghan Government in the 1960s and 1970s. The process of withdrawal started with the independence of India and Pakistan (widely celebrated in the UK media recently on its sixtieth anniversary), was confirmed by the […]

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The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50   The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s […]

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