Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] a third rate power, but the City of London has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a low-level operative. As an Irishman with a criminal record, Bannigan had his uses, and was deniable. He began carrying a gun, provided a report on alleged IRA gun-running activities, turned up in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination records, ‘serials’, chronology and the information from the latest […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]

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