Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] movement of capital, the global role of the City and the international status of sterling as (then) the world’s leading reserve currency. They tended to be Anglican, vote Conservative, send their children to the public schools and Oxbridge and to live in the London suburbs and the Home Counties. By the second half of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] reading, is not stated. US one-world conspiracy theorists please note: BP, RIIA and Fabians, all at once! In 1979 Butler was co-author, with Neil Kinnock, of Why Vote Labour? ‘By the autumn of 1981 her economic policies made her the least approved-of Prime Minister since Dr Gallup invented opinion polls. The government did not […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] a bomb into the U.K. and cause an apparent nuclear accident close to a U.S. air force base in East Anglia. This would ‘panic the 10% floating vote into unilateralism, and support at the polls the only party pledged to unilateralism, the Labour Party.’ (p.179) An analogous theme, of radioactive waste and the KGB, […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Luke Harding, David Leigh and David Pallister Penguin, 1997, £6.99 George Orwell said that Robinson Crusoe was a good example of a bad book, clumsily written but of natural interest due to its subject. The same is true here. Heroic and triumphant in tone, the troika of authors concentrate mainly on the paraphernalia, research and … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Old spooks’ tales John Loftus is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are sourced … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
STANLEY MAYNE A Socialist Caucus pamphlet put out in June 1984, Cold War and Class Collaboration: Red Baiting and Witch-Hunts in the Civil Service Unions suggested that ‘A rather mysterious affair occurred in the IPCS (Institute of Professional Civil Servants). Its General Secretary, Richard Nunn, who had in April 1962 correctly realised that the Radcliffe … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
From Colin Johnson Re: review of Neck Deep in Lobster 54. I think your reviewer missed the main point. The book intended to demonstrate, perhaps over verbally because much of the material comes from articles previously published on Consortiumnews.com mail out, that over the period of George ‘Woodentop’ Bush’s presidency the republic of America was … Read more