The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] which was kicking around as a summary of some Brexiteers’ aspirations: a low tax, authoritarian society – Singapore with better golf courses and easier access to the drugs of choice – fit for the rich to live and be serviced in. Lawson provides a link to maps of the proposed freeports in the UK.24 […]

Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]

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