Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b.   Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation […]

Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

BROWN, Walt. Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission. Wilmington (Delaware): elmax, 1995. 303 pps. An essential work of navigation for anyone sailing the seas of the Report and the Hearings and Exhibits. Supplements rather than replaces the search facilities on the Warren Commission CD-ROMs. COLLOM, Mark, and SAMPLE, Glen. The Men on […]

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] co-chairing a PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support […]

Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the next issue. But nothing appeared in Private Eye. The Guardian We next contacted the Guardian. They spent a week working on the story and journalist Paul Brown drove to Glastonbury to listen to David Icke. After a three-week wait, an article, ‘Ex-nutter rails at New World Order mind benders’ (9 May), finally appeared; […]

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] fascinating insight into the American military-industrial complex though there seems little point in discussing the actual content of the book: the activities of Halliburton, its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, or its infamous CEO, the vice-president of the United States, Dick Cheney. For those who read Collin Challen’s article in Lobster 47 it’s a […]

The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997) Seymour Hersh is one of those figures with no real equivalent in British journalism. For one thing, the budgets, the armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from […]

The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Paris on the weekend of the crash. At least one officer was detailed to shadow Diana and Dodi after their arrival from Sardinia (Stuart Qualtrough and David Brown, ‘The two vital questions…’ – The People 9 November, 1997. Another school of thought believes that Dodi was the intended target and Diana happened to be […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] magazine is now edited by John Lloyd, another one who has made the lucrative journey from left to right. See Lobster 47 p. 10. See also Colin Brown, ‘WMD expert reopens row about “sexed-up” dossier’, The Independent 16 February 2005. The text of the programme is at At the Davos meeting in January the […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Diana – the saga goes on and on..… Almost ten years after the fatal crash and the Diana industry still trundles along. In addition to her birthday concert(1) we are promised a slew of books(2)and a plethora of films and documentaries.(3) The main event, though, is sure to be the long-delayed but much anticipated inquest, […]

Power Beyond Reason

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] much of his behaviour was irrational. He was often beyond reason with everybody, including friends, except for an extremely tight and trusted inner circle, people like George Brown of Brown and Root, and the members of the 8F group, a cabal of politicians and businessmen which ran some of Texas in the 1950s and […]

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