Who were they travelling with? SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party

Book cover
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] Polly Toynbee – and another, Mary Stott, was elected to the party’s National Committee. Peter Jenkins, its senior political columnist (and husband of Polly Toynbee), and Derek Brown, its media correspondent, were known to be supporters. No newspaper had as high a proportion of Alliance supporters among its readers, and many SDP activists regard […]

The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] region which this inevitably created, supplied them with a reason/excuse for maintaining a strong military presence there, in the form of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo (built by Brown and Root, of whose parent company, Halliburton, the present Vice President of the US Dick Cheney was CEO). It is worthy of note that Camp Bondsteel […]

Europe Inc and Blowing the Whistle

Book cover
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the only honest man with any bottle on the EU staff, didn’t have to look hard to find corruption: it was everywhere he went.(5) Notes London: Little, Brown, 1999 The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, (London: Little Brown, 1997) which has recently been remaindered and is around for about a […]

The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] 6 January 1923 (for B.E.U.) A constant feature of the Tory right-wing has been its xenophobia. Since the Monday Club’s appearance the targets have been black and brown people in Britain. Before the second World War it was the Eastern Europeans in general and the Jews in particular. These were the ‘aliens’. Immediately after […]

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] no ground was visible: the mangrove trees were standing in water into which their roots plunged. To make progress, we either had to slosh through waist-deep, dark- brown liquid, making a dangerous amount of noise, or hop from one root to the next – a laborious and exhausting process which wore the arches of […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel cause and regularly sees Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch’s neo-con point man on matters Middle Eastern and much […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 16 March 2000. Trevor Rees-Jones with Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s story: Diana, the crash and the sole survivor, (London: Little, Brown, 2000.) One gets the impression that Moira Johnston did the bulk of the writing. An earlier book of hers, Spectral evidence: the Ramona Case – incest, […]

The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the author of an “Ulster Citizens’ Army” leaflet linking Loyalist militants with sectarian […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et […]

Accessibility Toolbar