Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] for Grimsby, the constituency ‘handed on’ to Tony Crosland. His cousin William Younger worked for Maxwell Knight as did ‘Bill’s’ mother Joan (Mrs Dennis Wheatley) and sister, Diana. See Anthony Masters, The Man Who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight (Basil Blackwell 1984) and Nigel West MI5: British Security Service operations 1909-1945 (Triad/Panther […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] human being. Like Young, Cavendish was accepted as a Conservative candidate in the early seventies, though their politics were to the right of the party. Cavendish, in Diana Menuhin’s account, was “so British as to belong to a past backed by an Empire that ruled the waves,” a world where “theft, deception, lies, mutilation […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Office colleague Lord Foulkes in speaking on behalf of the British intelligence services and calling for the early ending of the inquest into the death of Princess Diana. Whereas McShane’s rise in Labour politics was through trade union organisations (British, Polish and international, see Lobsters passim), Foulkes built his career during the Cold War […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] to be left alone: freedom not to be blown up, freedom to drink all hours, own second homes and travel overseas and freedom to emote (whether about Diana or Tibet or icebergs melting, it doesn’t matter). Give the people growth, security and feel their pain, and all would be well. But all was not […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] along: there is no document and there may well be no safe either. A recent example might be Paul Burrell, sent off by the coroner in the Diana inquest to retrieve his ‘secrets’, eventually exposed as not being secrets at all. Rule B: Unexplained contradictions and other mysteries do not necessarily mean anything strange […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] in 2014. One incident relating to awareness of paedophile activity at Broadmoor is particularly interesting. Bob Allen recalled a visit to the hospital made by the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Mr Allen said that the Princess was introduced to one Broadmoor patient who asked for her autograph. Diana told the patient that she […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] issues. What these may be are indicated in our report; but we recognise that events can confound predictions.’ The SAS did Di? First there was one ‘SAS-killed- Diana’ story. But as that story, to quote the Mirror, ‘….came in a letter to the elite unit’s commanding officer by the parents-in-law of a special forces […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] from brain cancer,115 was an intriguing figure. An article in The Telegraph in 2004, for example, noted his achievements included being ‘a close friend of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Wall Street Master of the Universe, financial backer of Afghan guerrillas fighting the Russians in the 1980s, Republican donor, legendary deal-maker, philanthropist, pal […]