The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] – or was about to become – Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel were simply untrue. I have never sought or wanted such a position.’ Gordon Brown also apparently has the interests of Israel close to his heart. A report in the Jewish Telegraph 27 June 2003 described Gordon Brown addressing the annual […]

Fantasy Island

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] we have are politicians who are driven by NuLab’s major policy imperatives: pleasing the City and following what focus groups tell them. I do not believe that Brown, Balls et al are unaware of the consequences of what E and A call the borrowing binge we have been going through in this country in […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] the British secret state was, I presume, its financial support by Libya. It seems clear that contact with Libya is taken very seriously by our spooks. Ron Brown MP had visited Libya and he has now been discredited as a result of his affair with Nona Longden. Brown claimed some months ago in the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] doing the City’s bidding, handed over the interest rate to the Bank of England, which promptly put the base rate up, and with it sterling’s international value. Brown and Blair have never understood the basics of the British economy. British manufacturing is so defeated it appears to have even given up appealing for a […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] to the dog in the back seat) but got a good look at the driver and described him as a European male aged approximately 50, with short-cut brown hair. Le Van Than is conspicuously Asian, was 22 years old at the time of the crash and had (and has) a thick mop of jet-black […]

Historical Notes (De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess; The 1949 sterling crisis)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] “One Boggis-Rolfe or two?” in Lobster 38 Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Pryor with assistance from Robert Brydon, Double Standards: the Rudolf Hess Cover-Up, (London: Little, Brown and Co, 2001.) Its advocacy of Operation Robot, the plan to make the pound convertible at a floating rate, is rooted in this conjuncture John Fforde, […]

Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

Introduction: Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Lee Harvey Oswald, like his mother Marguerite Oswald (née Claverie), was born in New Orleans, on 18th October 1939, and spent his first five years in the Crescent City. In early 1944 Mrs Oswald moved to Dallas with Lee and his half-brother, John Pic. She changed addresses frequently … Read more

Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] (US and other), conspiracy and health. Site broken up into 1995 and 1996, and gives monthly list of items published. 1996 includes Oklahoma City bombings, Waco, Ron Brown, Nazi gold, Marilyn, Kennedy and the Mob, the buying of the President, bovine growth hormone, Gulf War syndrome and aspartame (widely used artificial sweetener thought to […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] NatWest Charitable Trust. The influence of the unelected Baroness Scotland may wane rapidly once Blair goes, but the BAP will still have plenty of members around Gordon Brown should the man, who has already said he wants to replace Trident, begin to stray from Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] quite understand that. From M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton seeks to revive in your number 39 legends about SOE propagated by Robert Marshall and Anthony Cave Brown. The collapse of Francis ‘Prosper’ Suttill’s SOE circuit, centred on Paris, in late June 1943 can be fully explained from the circuit’s own weaknesses: it was […]

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