Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] assumes they are up to something. He confirmed this (24 June 1940) with the comment: ‘Edward Rice came to see me: he is deeply involved in peace propaganda and is alleged to be strongly pro-Nazi. I don’t know: he always praises Hitler in conversation’. We’re not told, of course, what Rice was talking to […]

View from 92 copy

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[…] or 4 1 development would be a closely-held secret? The putative existence of such biological weapons developments by the US has been a recurring theme in Russian propaganda. Thus far they have apparently offered no actual evidence.5 *new* Trumpski? Russ Baker wrote this recently: In response to Trump’s saber rattling, Denmark says if Trump […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ (khat, a chewed stimulant). Under interrogation, they emitted ‘bloodcurdling squeals’ – not ‘cries’. Cairo Radio didn’t just broadcast propaganda, but ‘spouted’ it, ‘gutterally’. Their supporters – at the UN, for example – ‘ranted’. Not all these expressions come from Mitchell’s mouth; many of them are […]

Misc reviews

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[…] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Sadly – and stupidly – access to it is £30.27 However its thesis can seen from the abstract: or 22 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998) 23 or 24 25 Christopher Mayhew, War of Words: a Cold War Witness (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998) p. 46. […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] as Smock was concerned, America was already suffering from ‘a serious political virus’ when the pandemic arrived. ‘Trumpism was spread from person to person with lies, deception, propaganda, and with bullying and smear tactics’. Trump’s rallies were important spreaders of the infection. As a ‘disease of the mind’, it could also be spread by […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] orientation is overseas: this is the territory of the Foreign Office and its think tank satellites like the Royal Institute for International Affairs – the political and propaganda apparatus of the overseas lobby. The Ideology of the Blairites It is not as if Mr Blair has made any attempt to conceal what he believes. […]

The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian ambassador by Dmitry Rogozin

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] of Christianity against the decadence of Western social liberalism (hence the anti-PC stance of the current regime).1 ‘Promotion of illegal drugs and of alcoholism, degenerative art, prostitution, propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia, offences against religious and national feelings are those openly antinational and anti-social manifestations of the perverse liberalism that should be banned unconditionally.’ […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] on 2 January 2016. It was alleged that, in the early hours of New Years Day, the then 21 year old Otto Warmbier had stolen a state propaganda poster1 from a ‘staff only’ area of the hotel (the Yanggakdo Hotel, the primary hotel for international tourists) where his tour group was staying. As the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 16 co-authored with Wyatt Reed. 17 6 18 *new* Pennies dropping In The Times (27 November) one Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute, a free market, libertarian propaganda outfit in Washington, wrote a self-explanatory piece with the title ‘We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe’.19 Former Blair era Labour Minister Denis MacShane […]

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