Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] left of centre MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924-1929 and 1929-1945, he dallied with Oswald Mosley circa 1930. With an American mother, and related by marriage to John F Kennedy, he was the US candidate to replace Eden after Suez. He initiated the first significant UK spending cuts (in defence and transport) and oversaw a very […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, and his account of Henry Kissinger’s life and crimes, The Price of Power. 2
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the US company Anderson Consulting. Tessa Blackstone, now an education minister, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] operations against the new government in Havana. The embargo and the preparations that led to CIA’s aborted Bay of Pigs invasion in the first months of the Kennedy administration, have set the tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the need for secret clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at like the bursting of the […]