The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hesses. Now we discover there were two ‘Sidney Gottliebs’. The first one – Sidney with an ‘i’ – was one of the brains behind the CIA’s ‘mind control’ experiments in the 1950s and 60s.26 The second one, discovered by Simon Matthews – Sydney with a ‘y’ – was a psychiatrist in the UK […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: or 42 43 44 Laffer is well known for his Laffer curve – long since debunked – an economic […]

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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] UK economy and bringing asset price volatility under control, while nurturing non-financial exporting sectors.’38 Yes, indeed. And good luck selling that to the British political system (never mind the electorate). It is precisely the difficulty of persuading those within the daily travel distance to London that their influence and share of the national cake […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] no more use and dumped him, leaving Wyatt to lament into his tape-recorder that Murdoch ‘has behaved like a swine and a pig’) and so to my mind the look of this ‘meeting with conspirators’ is that the whole thing was orchestrated by Mr Murdoch himself. It’s the simplest explanation. It’s clear from this […]

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[…] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. It was a classic non-denial denial. Secondly, he […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to Mr Adams’ readers, notwithstanding his admirable research to document his story from official records.2 This review examines Milteer might not have had a specific motorcade in mind at this stage. President Kennedy visited Miami fairly often, for personal reasons: the Kennedy family had a compound overlooking Palm Beach. 1 For example, the book’s […]

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