The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), re mind us what happens to a historian when the world learns, beyond all doubt, that the historian has got it wrong. Neither Stalin, nor Churchill, the two […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] tacit supporter with the substantial caveat that ‘Mentally we are much too far from Europe ever to enter wholeheartedly into its politics’. That is, the UK didn’t mind a united Europe (because it would be less trouble and likely to be anti-communist) but wouldn’t participate fully in it.9 CoudenhoveKalergi spoke at Chatham House in […]

Just Boris by Sonia Purnell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] for inventing an interview, only to move straight over to the Telegraph, where presumably such things were not considered so important. The question that inevitably comes to mind as one reads Purnell’s book is: how on earth does he get away with it? Certainly, his carefully constructed comical toff persona is an important factor. […]

Deaths in Parliament: a legend re-examined

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Alder 
 The terrorist attack staged by Khalid Masood on 22 March 2017, in which he attempted to enter Parliament, raised some questions. Most interesting, to my mind, was the matter of how he managed to arrive with such precision at the moment when the Carriage Gate to the South of the parliamentary estate […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] be an increasing reliance on paying for health care. Considering this wide-ranging and consistent approach to ordering life in the UK, the only comparison that comes to mind is with 18th century style mercantilism. Are we returning to this? A society in which wealth is based on trade, commerce and property ownership rather than […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Summer 2010 be overcome in order to lodge an application with the IPT. In order to ensure the efficiency of the secret surveillance regime, and bearing in mind the importance of such measures to the fight against terrorism and serious crime, the Court considers that the restrictions on the applicant’s rights in the context […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]

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