Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] by Flora Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] tough of the track’, a working-class track runner who would amble in from a day’s work as a plumber (?) and beat the toffs; and the Amazing Wilson, a mysterious runner who lived ‘in the hills’ and would descend now and then, dressed in black tights, to beat all-comers. I remember these characters – […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
Wick the forgotten One of the most prestigious, yet least challenging, posts in British journalism is that of Washington correspondent. Prestigious because of the importance of the United States; but least challenging because the natives speak English, more or less; and there are so many ready-made stories ripe for recycling to Britain, as the Internet […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] assertion that ‘at sea drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind’. Elwell’s energetic attempts to drown figures as varied as Harold Wilson and Chris Mullin continued after his formal retirement from countering ‘domestic subversion’ as head of F section in 1979. Working with Margaret Thatcher’s aide during the […]