Kincoragate

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more

Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

Harold Smith (Lobster 25) Observer editor Jonathan Fenby replied to a letter from Harold Smith on 17 June, 1993: ‘I don’t think it is a story we want to go back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘New rules, new date, … Read more

The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b   Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he … Read more

Quite Right, Mr Trotsky!

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

Publications Quite Right, Mr Trotsky! Denver Walker (Harney and Jones, London 1985) The sub-title of this book is “Some Trotskyist Myths Debunked; and how Trotskyists today hamper the fight for Peace and Socialism” To be fair, this is an amusing book at times and easy to read. In view of the fact that the author … Read more

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