Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: Failures of State: The Inside S tory of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot London: Mudlark Harper Collins 2021 £20.00 (h/b) John Booth There are journalists – and then there are journalists. There’s Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who while London Mayor called his £250,000 Daily Telegraph second-job contract ‘chicken feed’.1 […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that 80 per cent of Conservative MPs were members of CFI, ensuring that it was well-placed to influence British policy towards Israel during the long years of Tory government from 2010 until 2024.24 In early 2024, 37 per cent of Labour MPs were reported to be ‘associated with LFI’, along with 37 Labour peers.25 […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] supported Russian suspicions that the British had plotted to lure Hitler into attacking Russia. The book sold well in the USA with the sub-title, The Secret S tory of the Hess Peace Initiative and British Efforts to Strike a Deal With Hitler. Four years later Costello, 52, was found dead in his airline seat […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] a lucrative profession this can be. (Ms Barnwell is said to earn upward of $10,000 a month 1 I suspect this orignated with a National Enquirer s tory in January that claimed she only had six months to live. 2 There’s a decent round-up of this supernova of speculation at . 3 for appearances.) […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] policy establishment – the Foreign Office, the RUSI, Chatham House, MI6 etc – have led us to calamity in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere’.4 Oborne’s political trajec tory is fascinating and one can only look forward hopefully to a future book on Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and co. But what of his Complicit? Complicit opens […]

How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky at or . 2 3 He is profiled at . and employment . . . .’ (p. 109) His explana tory comments are these: ‘Her government’s economic and exchange rate policies may have brought down inflation, but they took no prisoners as export orders dried up and […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Conspiracies and cover-ups T he past year has not been an easy one for those who view his tory as just one bumbling cock-up after another. The Hillsborough inquiry1 revealed a co-ordinated effort by a large number of public servants not only to deny justice to the families and friends of […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] subsequent behaviour of Johnson (and Dominic Cummings), it is easy to forget that there are only 365 Conservative MPs. In fact, so loudly has their 2019 vic tory been proclaimed and so quiet have been the opposition parties since that debacle, an acceptance seems to be abroad that either very little can be done […]

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