Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] of ritualistic obligation had robbed them of compassion. I was shocked to see that this important officer of the state of Israel did not dare speak his mind on the street. As he paced the floor, he told me that politics and ritual had crossed swords in the Holy Land for so long that […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party and working-class voters is broken, it takes something new to win them back. The party has yet to find an answer for Scotland, never mind in England.’ So how is Starmer to do that given the structural, economic and societal changes that Payne says ‘have made these parts of England more […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not even […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] a coup to bring British troops onto the streets’, 16 August 1974. Page 106 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 At the centre was poor old Harold Wilson whose mind, according to Wheen’s diagnosis, was ‘a simmering goulash of halfremembered incidents and unexplained mysteries’. With Wilson in a folie à trois were Penrose and Courtiour, ‘poor […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] airfield between Kolwezi and Ndola, even though reports indicate that no Katangese-held airport or airfield suitable for jets existed in that area. One airfield particularly comes to mind, Kipushi, where the Katangese government had raised its temporary headquarters. The distance between Kipushi and Ndola, there and back, is approximately 404 km. Nevertheless, even if […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Here, for example, is his memo to general secretary Larry Whitty dated 19 September 1986: ‘If you are able to see John Booth today please bear in mind the following: 1) NUJ Chapel is meeting this morning and we need to see the outcome of that meeting first; 2) John has briefed a reporter […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] began writing the 007 books, the official story is that Fleming began to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’ in order to ‘take his mind off an impending marriage’. While marriage for the long time bachelor was certainly in the works, other more important things were on his mind. Noel Coward, […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] . 10 8 chaired the Jewish Leadership Council, a key body in promoting the ‘Labour anti-semitism’ scare?11 This is just one of many questions that come to mind reading this tour d’horizon of the much-travelled diarist. But first he must be thanked for telling us so much about the workings of UK government and […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] began writing the 007 books, the official story is that Fleming began to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’ in order to ‘take his mind off an impending marriage’. While marriage for the long time bachelor was certainly in the works, other more important things were on his mind. Noel Coward, […]

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