The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the 26th of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] disclosure could seriously harm international relations. With the Soviet Union dissolved and Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the […]

Lobster 11

Lobster Issue

[…] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] an MI5 document written in 1975, i.e. the job specification document. Why was Mr Calcutt prevented from having access to the full job justification document, bearing in mind that it was specifically requested by the MoD (Dept. ASD2) before approval was given for my appointment? It should also be noted that I had previously […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Soviet Union, got off a million-to-one shot in Dallas. He acted alone. Or he was an instrument of a conspiracy so immense that it staggers the mind.’ In the first place Oswald wasn’t ‘trained as a sharpshooter’ by the Marines. Like all Marines, he was trained to fire a rifle. But had Mr […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] from his own experience at pre-1914 Cambridge and then as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, that people knew and felt goodness, leading to ‘good states of mind’, at various times in their lives, whether in the form of – for example – personal affection, beauty or pleasure in great art and literature. This […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the Soviet Union, got off a million-to-one shot in Dallas. He acted alone. Or he was an instrument of a conspiracy so immense that it staggers the mind.’ In the first place Oswald wasn’t ‘trained as a sharpshooter’ by the Marines. Like all Marines, he was trained to fire a rifle. But had Mr […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] from his own experience at pre-1914 Cambridge and then as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, that people knew and felt goodness, leading to ‘good states of mind’, at various times in their lives, whether in the form of – for example – personal affection, beauty or pleasure in great art and literature. This […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] which supported her and not imitate Heath’s ‘u-turn’ in 1972. Since her economic policies were having serious unforeseen negative consequences, rationally she should have been changing her mind; politically she could not do so. On the other hand Labour did borrow too much, and borrowed it expensively – just think of the stupid PFI […]

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