Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 28 8 Steele Dossier!29 Confirmation that our man was (at least willing to act as) a representative of MI6 comes from the transcript of the symposium ‘The Mind of the Hacker Insights from GCHQ, MI6 and Israeli Intelligence’.30 This shows the audience were told they would ‘be joined on stage by Arthur Snell from […]

What if…

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] at a price. The ever-swelling public sector took on huge new projects to provide jobs – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] I should have made my discovery known at once. The reason I did not was that I myself was then an Army officer and knew the military mind: any discovery I claimed to have made would have been quickly swept under the carpet and buried for another thirty years.’129 I took this advice to […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] ‘affordable’ colour-changing fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

Lobster Issue

[…] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

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