Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] He had a lengthy record of interventions on matters concerning sexuality, voted against homosexual decriminalisation in the House of Lords and conducted the cover-up inquiry in the Profumo case. In Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (2006) Simon Jenkins comments that one effect of the Thatcher, Major and Blair years has been […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] of the few where the author eschews the studied objectivity of the majority of the work, his final paragraph reading: ‘Ward was in fact incidental to the Profumo episode: he was a sacrificial offering. The exorcism of scandal in high places required the façade of his conviction on vice charges.’ The entries are scrupulously […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn’t entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of the Profumo affair. Cui bono notions were in the air. Perhaps the Soviets had arranged it for Wilson’s political benefit? If so, what did that say about Wilson? […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the other hand, the Tory MP – public schoolboy – sexual deviant/fetishist figure is scarcely fresh news. Didn’t we hear all about this around the time of Profumo? The authors make a big noise about the general immorality of the arms trade and arms manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] story. But in the midst of this research, Dorril was contacted by Anthony Summers who offered him the chance to be co-author of a book on the Profumo Affair, which became Honeytrap. Dorril abandoned Wallace and Holroyd and I wrote Lobster 11, an attempt to make sense of some of Wallace’s allegations. We had […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Second Oldest Profession (Andre Deutsch 1986 see pp.313-25), which Brook-Shepherd says ‘averages two factual errors per page.’ (p.284) After the legal problems with his book on the Profumo Affair and the disastrous appearance on the LWT programme on the trial of Hollis, Knightley’s reputation is at an all time low. West’s version of Wynne […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] German call girl’. 48 Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997), pp. 387-390. the Soviet embassy.49 To Hoover, this intelligence recalled the sensational Profumo affair then grabbing headlines in Great Britain. The British scandal eventually prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after public revelations that his War Minister, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Kennedy, appears to have had access to quite a considerable variety of interesting information. On 31 July 1962 Queen published the first piece of gossip linking John Profumo to Christine Keeler and Eugene Ivanov. It is not known who supplied Queen and/or Robin Douglas-Home with this information, but its appearance was a significant part […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo Affair. That in a nutshell is the Mariella story. So, the biographer has some heavy lifting to do sorting out fact from fiction. Right? Wrong in […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were quietly removed. One reading of this would be as follows: 10 Attlee, too, went full term […]