Let the Petals Fall

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] been married once since 1945 to Blunt’s friend from 1921 who became the 4th Duke of Westminster in 1963, as well as with Joe. Not even when Diana Petrie wrote a book about her father in 1975, The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley, did the secret about Sally come out. Joe Ackerley took credit […]

A Who’s Who of Appeasers, 1939-41

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] 1896. Former Conservative and Labour M.P.. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1929-30. Founded the New Party and then the British Union of Fascists in 1932. Married Diana, daughter of Lord Redesdale (q.v.) in 1936. Arrested under Regulation 18b in 1940. Club: White’s. (Costello) Mountain, Sir Edward Mortimer B. 1872. Chairman and Managing Director […]

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] So what we have is a series of chapters in which Aaronovitch gives us his opinions of some high profile conspiracy theories: the aforementioned, plus 9/11, Princess Diana, David Kelly, Hilda Murrell, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, etc., in all of which the conspiracy theorists get it wrong in his opinion. As […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] organization, while in other respects it has the characteristics of a tightly disciplined international political party.’ (101) This conclusion is corroborated by the testimony of ex-Moonies like Diana Devine, who confirmed that ‘ll members of the UC are used interchangeably in any one of the 60 front organizations, as needed or assigned by Moon’. […]

Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] for Grimsby, the constituency ‘handed on’ to Tony Crosland. His cousin William Younger worked for Maxwell Knight as did ‘Bill’s’ mother Joan (Mrs Dennis Wheatley) and sister, Diana. See Anthony Masters, The Man Who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight (Basil Blackwell 1984) and Nigel West MI5: British Security Service operations 1909-1945 (Triad/Panther […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] Office colleague Lord Foulkes in speaking on behalf of the British intelligence services and calling for the early ending of the inquest into the death of Princess Diana. Whereas McShane’s rise in Labour politics was through trade union organisations (British, Polish and international, see Lobsters passim), Foulkes built his career during the Cold War […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] human being. Like Young, Cavendish was accepted as a Conservative candidate in the early seventies, though their politics were to the right of the party. Cavendish, in Diana Menuhin’s account, was “so British as to belong to a past backed by an Empire that ruled the waves,” a world where “theft, deception, lies, mutilation […]

Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] to be left alone: freedom not to be blown up, freedom to drink all hours, own second homes and travel overseas and freedom to emote (whether about Diana or Tibet or icebergs melting, it doesn’t matter). Give the people growth, security and feel their pain, and all would be well. But all was not […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

Lobster Issue

[…] the initial capital for the projects of Caucasian Common Market.” Jamestown Foundation, Monitor, Vol. 3, Issue 206, 11/4/97. Another interested party before his tragic death with Princess Diana was Dodi al-Fayad, the owner of Harrod’s and Khashoggi’s nephew. AFP, “From criminal to Islamist: US journalist traces the life of a Chechen rebel,” JRL 7252, […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] along: there is no document and there may well be no safe either. A recent example might be Paul Burrell, sent off by the coroner in the Diana inquest to retrieve his ‘secrets’, eventually exposed as not being secrets at all. Rule B: Unexplained contradictions and other mysteries do not necessarily mean anything strange […]

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