Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to make it more amenable to the US, got under way.4 This took the form of Harold MacMillan having a series of private meetings at the US embassy and Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly promoting the need to address the ‘moral crisis’ facing the nation. Throughout this Eden’s ill-health, with a long-standing […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] new documents were made public, with more to come, settled any debate about whose information was reliable. Emphasise apparent. The caller said something like ‘Ring the American embassy in London for some big news’, not ‘JFK’s going to be killed in Dallas.’ See . 35 36 stated that those who doubted Warren’s conclusion were […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the idea. Of course it is possible, not using chemicals or drugs, which were discussed, but electromagnetic radiation (EMR). (Was anyone monitoring EMR around Chavez?) The US embassy in Moscow was irradiated in the 1960s by the Soviet regime, resulting in the death of at least one member of the staff, and kicking-off the […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] riots, when in fact he had taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] time and again that they will ultimately damage or destroy any organisation to which they attach themselves. After the SLP collapsed, I was invited to the US embassy to a discussion on how it happened, with the ambassador present. They were very interested in the IMG. The effect they had on the SLP was […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘the numbers employed in Soviet missions in the UK had by the mid-1960s reached record levels, and though a ceiling was imposed on the size of the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] riots, when in fact he had taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] In this context note that that Archibald James, Conservative MP for Wellingborough 1931-1945, was a friend of R. A. Butler, and served as Honorary First Secretary, British Embassy in Madrid 1940-1941, whilst still an MP. In other words, Hoare, Butler and others had a trusted link to Madrid during a period when the chances […]

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