Paul Foot 1938 – 2004

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] you get some actors?’ (There were two sitting in the room, drinking tea.) No: Loach wanted us to improvise it. So in front of some professional actors, mind, we spent an excruciating 15 minutes trying to improvise a dialogue about the 1970s, pretending to be a British Army officers engaged in a cabal. We […]

Lonrho

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] are offences in which the essence is improper concealment of information from share holders of a public company for the purpose of private enrichment. I have in mind the following possible charges: an offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new […]

Popular Alienation

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] for example contains this sequence of articles: a piece about Gerald Posner’s Case Closed; a piece called ‘Secret Service Masers Kill and Make Whores’ about implants and mind control programmes of the US government, which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the […]

No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt Richard Webster Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005, £25   This is an account of the various child abuse and satanic abuse cases that developed across the UK from the mid ’80s onwards. At the phenomenon’s peak, around 1995, many police forces were carrying […]

Clinton and Quigley: a strange tale from the U.S. elite

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy nonetheless. But apart from them, the only people who seem to have taken Quigley on board have been Shoup and Minter […]

Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Did the £12 million donation to the Dome buy the tax exemption? We can’t know (though prevarications on chronology to investigative reporters suggests a guilty state of mind). Certainly, the donation made turning down requests for meetings and secret negotiations difficult. Secret meetings are held for the purpose of keeping others out. In the […]

Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] of the British state; and on the dominance of London and Roseland (rest of the south of England); and on nationalism and identity. Nairn has a powerful mind, a wide knowledge rooted in Marxism, and wonderful savage rhetoric. Here are some quotations. You could almost pick quotes at random; much of it is like […]

The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden

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Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy none the less. But apart from them, the only people who seem to have taken Quigley on board have been Shoup […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] do we know the caller was referring to the assassination? We don’t. It is difficult, however, not to conclude it was the assassination the caller had in mind, particularly when one considers the timing of the call – twenty-five minutes before the shooting. Could there have been another event on that day intended? I […]

Anglo-America and the Third Reich

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the nature of money, and informed by thousands of yellowed pages in the archives of the Bank of England, Preparata throws a shaft of light into the mind of Montagu Norman, the bank’s Governor for almost a quarter of a century. Thus we embark on a world historical game of ‘follow the money’. Under […]

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