Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] East. (pp. 59-60) The main interest of the officers during the voyage was gambling and they established their own casino on board their transport ship, with Randolph Churchill losing £400 in one night. (As Mortimer points out, in today’s money that is over £22,000.) The Germans never stood a chance. There is not the […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] had considerable credibility in right-wing circles, even being ‘enthusiastically received . . . by senior cabinet members’. (p. 9) Consumed by his hatred for Bolshevism, even Winston Churchill seems to have briefly given the Protocols some credence. And then on 16, 17 and 18 August 1921, The Times published a series of articles by […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] roam and camp is enjoyed across the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries. The author notes all this more in sorrow than in anger and quotes Winston Churchill approvingly : It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It is not the man who is bad; it is the law which […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why can’t you plan […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] to be passing information to Moscow, given that the UK and the USSR were allies and that Soviet scepticism about the genuine good faith and trustworthiness of Churchill and Roosevelt, notwithstanding all their assurances of friendship, could be mitigated by secret intelligence being passed to them by Philby and others, especially if this confirmed […]