Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tank’ was shut down after the Charity Commissioners said in 2010 that its primary objective appeared to be ‘promoting a political policy is closely associated with the Conservative party’. Ms Bertin, a former banker, had her £25,000 salary at Atlantic Bridge paid by Pfizer, the giant US pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1997 by North […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bowes & Bowes to Sherratt & Hughes. I note that your letterhead is still B&B, so I hope that this letter will reach you. To an old conservative gentleman like me, it is rather a shock to hear that a name which I have revered for 57 years is no longer to be.’ ‘Kim […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on 31 March. By then he had also lunched at least twice at the Dorchester with General Sikorski and his influential British liaison officer Colonel Victor Cazalet, Conservative MP for Chippenham. A new timeline reveals that on Saturday, 10 May 1941, on the night of the heaviest-ever German bombing raid on London, Hess and […]

Gladio NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Gladio NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis Richard Cottrell Progressive Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with ‘….entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] recount events which, by his own standards, filled him with shame. The story he told his son could not be uplifting or evidence that indeed the father’s conservative ideals had triumphed or were in any way worthy of emulation. Of course some of the feelings burdening the principal in the story cannot be attributed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] journalistic accounts of the Trump years, If Only They Didn’t Speak English and A Year at the Circus.1 These two resolutely mediocre volumes show how the BBC’s conservative even-handedness makes it unable to deal seriously with the likes of Trump and the MAGA movement. What of UnPresidented? This takes the form of a diary […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of either these days, at least on television. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, given the revolving door between the BBC News and Current Affairs department and the Conservative Party.10 Scott Newton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. I tried to cover some of these issues in my, ‘Historical […]

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