Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] prewar European colonial powers given the UN Charter and its promise of national self-determination. The US regime was also able to market itself as the ideal development agent. Unscathed by World War II, it had already devoted substantial efforts to ‘rebuild’ Europe and supply food and other economic aid to countries left in distress […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] this in neutral countries during a war. The evidence we have suggests that Churchill didn’t have specific information about Hess’s actions. In 1959, Heinrich Stahmer, Albrecht Haushofer’s agent in Spain, claimed that meetings between Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax and Rudolf Hess took place in Spain and Portugal between February and April 1941.24 On Stewart […]