The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] a base in Crete ended in ignominious defeat on 1 June with 23,000 UK troops killed or captured and 12 ships sunk.) See above footnote 49. The BBC History Magazine May 2001 (cited in Padfield) quotes a Margaret Baird, wife of the farmer who owned the land where Hess crashed: ‘the police was ordered […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] and Jonathan Powell, who had the final editing rights on the notorious ‘dodgy dossier’. Hence the great row about ‘sexing-up’ which led to the upheaval at the BBC and the big fight with the government – a fight in which, as Lord Hutton showed us, the claim that the estimates had been ‘sexed-up’ was […]

Hess DNA: Round 15

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] was a Tunisian, Abdallah Melaouhi. He cared for the prisoner until 1987 when the prisoner was found dead in a summerhouse. Melaouhi believed his patient was murdered: BBC Newsnight 28 February 1989. 11 feet with Essaven ointment . Take a blood sample in order to assess the serum level achieved by Prisoner No. 7’s […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] and super rich. Our own Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, used to work as an analyst for Goldman Sachs, as did the new Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp – for 23 years no less – where he was Sunak’s boss. Sharp was also an adviser to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund London: The Bodley Head, 2025, £25, h/b Colin Challen One of the earlier books seeking to answer the questions of who and what Keir Starmer is and represents was Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right (Verso, 2022). […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] fine imposed and the expenses incurred by the Telegraph dealing with the court case. Harebrained? ‘Page 8’ was a film written and directed by David Hare on BBC 2 on 28 August 2011, in which Bill Nighy played a suave, sophisticated senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the Gaza Strip, UM Commission finds’, 16 September 2025, . See also Jeremy Bowen, ‘UN commission report on genocide is blunt indictment of Israel’s actions in Gaza’, BBC News 16 September 2025, . 7 ‘IPSOS poll on British attitudes towards the conflict in Israel and Gaza’, 15 September 2025, 8 9 See for example […]

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