PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

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

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[…] 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. 7 5

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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

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

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[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 […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

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[PDF file]: […] the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and Galloway force. No mention of alMegrahi and Libya then […]

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[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] getting better and that the United Kingdom was about to become the most innovative country in the world, or, as Rishi Sunak put it at the 2021 Conservative Conference: “the most exciting place on the planet”. A government comprised of ministers apparently impervious to basic social and scientific facts had found that their only […]

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 […]

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