See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more
[…] bleak winter of 1944-45, when Philby was busily forming his new Soviet counter-espionage section, that Muggeridge met him again… Two small incidents imprinted themselves indelibly on Muggeridge’s mind. Each concerned Philby. The first was a heated discussion at table about the rights and wrongs of withholding important Bletchley intercepts from the Soviet Union. It […]
Researching the European State: a critical guide Edited by Tony Bunyan Statewatch PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW £7.00 With sixty A4 pages plus a six page index, this is, as the title suggests, an annotated bibliography. The flyer which came with it accurately described it thus: ‘This is the first bibliography on the European […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Parliament. As to the charges against Fiore, having no Italian contacts and distrusting greatly the scant British press reports of the matter, I still have an open mind, and would be grateful for any information readers of Lobster can supply on this important matter. Times 19 February 1983 and Sunday Times 20 February 1983. […]
Flying Saucers over Los Angeles The UFO Craze of the 1950s Dwayne B. Johnson and Kenn Thomas Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, USA, 1998, $16.00 Flying Saucers over America Steamshovel Supplement to Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles Steamshovel Press, 1998, $20 Two more productions from the prolific Kenn Thomas. Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles is … Read more
[…] had graduated from writing for Lobster (see number 24) to one of Canada’s leading daily papers, the Globe and Mail; and had done so by changing his mind and accepting that the Warren Commission was correct. In the Globe and Mail of January 21 this year there is another large piece by Mr Van […]
Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Writers in this issue Jane Affleck is a regular contributor to Lobster. Garrick Alder is a journalist. Richard Alexander is a long-time Lobster reader and contributor. His website is <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blackchip/> Roger Cottrell is a novelist, script writer and PhD student. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. … Read more
[…] Belfast worsened and, as an interim measure, Gibbons ordered 500 rifles to be transported to Dundalk on the border. The rifles had been stockpiled with this in mind – against the advice of Kelly, as they were traceable to the Irish Army – after a potential purchaser in August 1969 turned out to have […]
[…] he had a copy of the minutes of that meeting, that they were 70 pages of them, and that he would, eventually, make me a copy. Never mind the 70 pages, I replied, what was on the agenda that year? And is there anything to stand up the claim that the oil price hike […]
