Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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)
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[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 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the contest between the Soviet Union and the United States”. Bissell believed that “from today’s perspective, many episodes might be considered distasteful, but during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years the Soviet danger seemed real and all actions were aimed at thwarting it”’. (p. 511) ‘The Soviet danger seemed real’ is the lie. And as […]