Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b. Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
BROWN, Walt. Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission. Wilmington (Delaware): elmax, 1995. 303 pps. An essential work of navigation for anyone sailing the seas of the Report and the Hearings and Exhibits. Supplements rather than replaces the search facilities on the Warren Commission CD-ROMs. COLLOM, Mark, and SAMPLE, Glen. The Men on […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] co-chairing a PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] the next issue. But nothing appeared in Private Eye. The Guardian We next contacted the Guardian. They spent a week working on the story and journalist Paul Brown drove to Glastonbury to listen to David Icke. After a three-week wait, an article, ‘Ex-nutter rails at New World Order mind benders’ (9 May), finally appeared; […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] fascinating insight into the American military-industrial complex though there seems little point in discussing the actual content of the book: the activities of Halliburton, its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, or its infamous CEO, the vice-president of the United States, Dick Cheney. For those who read Collin Challen’s article in Lobster 47 it’s a […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] its piece naming the Guardian’s Richard Gott as ‘the KGB’s British writer-in-residence’.(2) On 27 December the Guardian printed a photograph of Mr G being embraced by Ron Brown, the former MP for Leith, and Bill Michie MP. It was a busy day for Mr Michie, for he was also named in The Times in […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the first Wilson government. There’s this on George Brown while Labour’s Foreign Secretary: ‘….he was also particularly friendly to America. Several times he went along with Washington’s proposals even though he didn’t fully agree with […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Paris on the weekend of the crash. At least one officer was detailed to shadow Diana and Dodi after their arrival from Sardinia (Stuart Qualtrough and David Brown, ‘The two vital questions…’ – The People 9 November, 1997. Another school of thought believes that Dodi was the intended target and Diana happened to be […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] magazine is now edited by John Lloyd, another one who has made the lucrative journey from left to right. See Lobster 47 p. 10. See also Colin Brown, ‘WMD expert reopens row about “sexed-up” dossier’, The Independent 16 February 2005. The text of the programme is at At the Davos meeting in January the […]