Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] would act if, or when, peace terms were tabled was never clear. Beyond Parliament there were others whose attitude toward Churchill was less than whole-hearted. Sir Horace Wilson, the Head of the Home Civil Service, was known for his strongly anti-semitic views and had been a staunch supporter of Chamberlain’s policies pre-1939 remarking, ‘The […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the Weather in 2025’, Air Force 2025, August 1996, at . 10 Kenney quoted in James R. Fleming, ‘The Climate Engineers: Playing God to Save the Planet’, Wilson Quarterly, Spring, 2007, p. 55. 11 Arnold A. Barnes, ‘Weather Modification: Test Technology Symposium ’97: Session B: Advanced Weapons/Instrumentation Technologies’, Air Force Materiel Command, 19 March […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pregentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] p. 114 of Lobster 59. 2 Will Hutton, ‘The banks have refused to mend their ways. Beware the next crash’, The Observer, 13 June 2010. 3 Harry Wilson, ‘Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan ridiculed by City investors’, Daily Telegraph, 1 October 2010. 52 Winter 2010 partly dictated by the Coalition government’s covert provisioning against […]