Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] (SOE). He was parachuted into Albania in April 1943, on the flight out reading Horse and Hound and the Tatler! Jones insists that while he had ‘ conservative . . . leanings’, he was by and large ‘uninterested in politics’. (p. 83) Once again, this seems much too generous. In fact, his conservatism was […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] If so, whatever could be gleaned about Hess from this contact could be used against anyone trying to negotiate with him: i.e. Bevin thought elements in the Conservative party were trying to reach a deal with the Nazi regime, and wanted material that would discredit them. Another explanation might be that the enquiry to […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] on the nation’s doorstep will be an increasingly important asset, helping spread wealth and growth across the UK as a whole’, trills the advertorial, neatly addressing the Conservative government’s shaky, if not calamitous, relationship with ‘growth’ and ‘levelling up.’ How then does the CEBR report substantiate these claims? If one could sum it up […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and Galloway force. No mention of alMegrahi and Libya then […]