General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] has interviewed the most heads of state and government’, which is true as far as it goes. 4 Sarah Curtis notes simply that Mr Lewis was: ‘ Conservative MP, elected 1997’ – which again, is true as far as it goes but does not reflect Mr Lewis’ status at the time or, for example, […]

Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

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

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[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, […]

Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue

[…] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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)

[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 […]

PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] first place. 3 4 Belatedly recognized in a piece published in The Daily Telegraph on 20 December 1938. Whose son – also named George – was a Conservative MP 1974-2015 and cabinet minister under John Major and David Cameron. He now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Young of Cookham. 5 3 […]

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