Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] 8 In Mexico, rival candidates boast of the importance of ‘their’ US consultants whereas in France, for example, the presence of a US consultant is an election-losing secret. 9 Despite the subtitle of the book, possibly inserted by the publisher, Harding is not really interested in ‘spin’, which apart from anything else is first […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] February 1970 Dee hosted an episode in which he interviewed George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, the stars of the then current James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. Lazenby, who was managed by Ronan O’Rahilly, used his appearance on the show to speak at some length about the 23 ‘Girl on a Motorcycle’, […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] to a famous investigation into the origins of the 1991 North Wales care homes scandal conducted by the late Richard Webster and reported in his book The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt.14 Smith and Burnett follow Webster’s argument that people mounting a moral crusade against child abuse can […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Indeed, Johnson has actually blamed his father for his own conduct, on one occasion, telling his second wife, Marina, after she had thrown him out, ‘his innermost secret’. He had seen his father ‘hit Charlotte. So much about Boris was explained by that experience’. (p. 92) Both she and Bower seem to have fallen […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] January 1925. 8 Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, (Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1975) p. 103. See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). extensive military and secret police force to suppress opposition to it. Officially, US national security means the protection of its territory, fundamental ‘freedoms’ and the interests of the US abroad, […]