Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] between the privations suffered by ordinary citizens, especially pensioners and war veterans, and the affluence and corruption evident in senior Party circles.38 His willingness to speak his mind reinforced the paranoid school of opinion about him in the KGB and led to the temporary suspension of his training sessions and seminars: ‘It was Oleg […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Oh-oh By some distance the biggest story I have seen recently is that told on CBS’s 60 Minutes series recently, Scott Pelley’s ‘Havana Syndrome mystery continues as a lead military investigator says bar […]

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[…] always easy meat for the orthodoxy of the City.) What was inflation between 1945 and 1970, 2-4% per annum on average? Who, in his or her right mind, would not trade off 4% inflation for full employment and 2% growth? Vaisey’s vision Another version of the same basic perception that a great watershed had […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he had succeeded. ‘Heath had been very impressed, when visiting Germany, by Willy Brandt’s regular round-table consultations with the unions and the German system of co-partnership; his mind began moving towards establishing a similar relationship in Britain by which the unions should be given an acknowledged role in the running of the economy.’ 24 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] married against her will, before backing out at the last minute and being sent home to the UK in disgrace, he added.’ (emphasis added) Bearing that in mind, the fact from the prosecution presented evidence that she said, in a phone call she made from prison: ‘I’m so tired about things I didn’t get […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his report that the police must stop using the word victim and start using the word complainant because the police must approach these cases with an open mind. It is their duty to investigate whether or not it leads towards the suspect or indeed away from the suspect.’ 16 The abandoned guidelines referred to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1839. Henderson emailed on 6 April: ‘ Starmer is my MP. Mmmm . . . I wonder if I should visit him at his surgery and re mind him of the time when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions and how he refused to take action after Tony and Cherie Blair had attempted […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Oh-oh By some distance the biggest story I have seen recently is that told on ABC’s 60 Minutes series recently, Scott Pelley’s ‘Havana Syndrome mystery continues as a lead military investigator says bar […]

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